{"id":1213,"date":"2004-05-31T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2004-05-31T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T21:02:11","slug":"the-criminals-grow-younger-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"The criminals grow younger every year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fifteen-year-old nephew by marriage recently pitched up on his grandmother&#8217;s doorstep at 1.30am, half drunk and wholly terrified after being chased through the streets by a gang with knives. This is a whole lot younger than I was when I started hanging out with people who settled arguments that way. More shocking, I think, is that it all happened in Winchester, a town of stultifying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upmystreet.com\/property\/prices.php3?l1=winchester\" title=\"Average detached house price more than 400,000\">wealth<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upmystreet.com\/overview\/?l1=winchester%23Sin\" title=\"half the burglaries and a third the car crimes of the national average\">respectability.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Out of a population of 107,000, 353 are officially unemployed. I do hope the knives young Piers was threatened with  weren&#8217;t plate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fifteen-year-old nephew by marriage recently pitched up on his grandmother&#8217;s doorstep at 1.30am, half drunk and wholly terrified after being chased through the streets by a gang with knives. This is a whole lot younger than I was when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}