{"id":5471,"date":"2012-02-04T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2012-02-04T10:06:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:06:52","slug":"cows-pigs-a-prank-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/02\/04\/cows-pigs-a-prank-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Cows, Pigs, a prank, oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5472\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5472\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/02\/04\/cows-pigs-a-prank-oh-my\/inmate-adds-pig-image-to-vt-police-cruiser-decals-2984962\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5472\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5472 \" title=\"Inmate-adds-pig-image-to-Vt-police-cruiser-decals-2984962\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/02\/Inmate-adds-pig-image-to-Vt-police-cruiser-decals-2984962-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/02\/Inmate-adds-pig-image-to-Vt-police-cruiser-decals-2984962-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/02\/Inmate-adds-pig-image-to-Vt-police-cruiser-decals-2984962-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/02\/Inmate-adds-pig-image-to-Vt-police-cruiser-decals-2984962-321x450.jpg 321w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/02\/Inmate-adds-pig-image-to-Vt-police-cruiser-decals-2984962.jpeg 337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Vermont cow, with pig spots<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a prank to rival any other&#8211;several years ago, an inmate working at the Vermont state prison print shop in St. Albans modified a decal used on Vermont state police cars. The decal features a pastoral scene with a dairy cow. The cow is brown with yellow spots. Most of the spots are amorphous blobs&#8230;except for one in the top lefthand corner, which is shaped like a pig.<\/p>\n<p>The pig image, writes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20120202\/NEWS02\/120202039\/Pigs-on-police-cars-Prank-by-Vermont-inmates-adorns-decals?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE\">Burlington Free Press<\/a>, harks back to &#8220;the infamous \u201960s-era epithet by protesters for police officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody noticed the pig-shaped spot for awhile, and state police estimate the decal is sported by some 30 cruisers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not as offensive as it would have been years ago. We can see the humor,\u201d Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn told the Free Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a prank to rival any other&#8211;several years ago, an inmate working at the Vermont [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4863,4872,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}