{"id":3081,"date":"2022-06-27T01:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T07:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:05","slug":"monday-musings-andy-griffith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2022\/06\/27\/monday-musings-andy-griffith\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Musings: Andy Griffith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Andy_Griffith_Andy_Griffith_Show_1960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Andy_Griffith_Andy_Griffith_Show_1960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"491\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3082\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was a child, I was taught the cops were the good guys. Andy was what cops were supposed to be.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheriff Andy Taylor on ~  Why he doesn&#039;t wear a gun\" width=\"629\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Fer9ql7itc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he&#8217;s getting might really be fear. So I don&#8217;t carry a gun, because I don&#8217;t want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I&#8217;d rather they respect me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, the police do not have an obligation to protect and serve (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/28\/politics\/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html\">thanks, SCOTUS<\/a>) and they increasingly model the behavior we were all taught was wrong as children.<\/p>\n<p>There are two law enforcement officers, who I respect. Both work for the National Park Service. Every other officer I&#8217;ve interacted in my life, across more than a dozen states, have been exactly what is shown in the media. Anecdotal I know, but what is the NPS doing that their LEOs aren&#8217;t dicks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child, I was taught the cops were the good guys. Andy was what cops were supposed to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[170,287],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-musings","tag-guns","tag-police"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}