{"id":190,"date":"2008-06-20T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T19:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/mission-accomplished-no-still-not-that-one\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T19:16:15","slug":"mission-accomplished-no-still-not-that-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/mission-accomplished-no-still-not-that-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished.  No, Still Not THAT One."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned  a new word today:  &#8220;mendicant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, there is a seventeenth century English criminal case called Wright&#8217;s Case.  In this case, it was held (<a href=\"http:\/\/scc.lexum.umontreal.ca\/en\/1991\/1991rcs2-714\/1991rcs2-714.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Supreme Court of Canada<\/a>) that a man would:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>be punished at law for procuring another to sever his hand &#8211; to assist his career as a mendicant &#8211; but the person effecting the task would also be liable to criminal sanction, irrespective of the other&#8217;s consent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&amp;q=define%3A+mendicant&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;meta=\" title=\"You learn something new every day.  Now I can be ignorant until midnight.\" target=\"_blank\">Apparently<\/a>, mendicant &#8220;refers to begging or relying on charitable donations, and is most widely used for religious followers or ascetics who rely exclusively on charity to survive&#8221;.   Also apparently, going for skills development training as a trainee mendicant entails making a very significant and permanent commitment to continuing employment in the field.<\/p>\n<p>They say you learn something new every day.  It&#8217;s only five to three in the afternoon;  I guess I can be ignorant now until at least midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a new word today: &#8220;mendicant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, there is a seventeenth century English criminal case called Wright&#8217;s Case. In this case, it was held (according to the Supreme Court of Canada) that a man would:<\/p>\n<p>be punished at law for procuring another to sever his hand &#8211; to assist his career as a mendicant [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[377,375,376,374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}