{"id":512,"date":"2009-06-30T13:18:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-06-30T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:48:15","slug":"if-you-drive-drunk-and-hit-and-kill-someone-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/06\/30\/if-you-drive-drunk-and-hit-and-kill-someone-run\/","title":{"rendered":"If you drive drunk and hit and kill someone, RUN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/news_briefs\/story\/5472150\/\">Gavin Hawk was sentenced to 19 to 23 months in jail<\/a> for (in all probability) driving home drunk from a Carolina Hurricanes game and hitting and killing Spyk Quick on I-440.\u00a0 Most people think the sentence is light.\u00a0 Legally Gavin did the smart thing even though what he did was morally reprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>You see if Gavin had stayed at the scene drunk after hitting Spyk he would have been charged with murder or manslaughter.\u00a0 Because he ran and hid for a few days while Raleigh detectives searched for him, Gavin will serve less than two years. \u00a0 Prosecutors could not prove he was driving drunk even though he admits being on his way home from a Hurricanes game he conveniently attended with only his father.\u00a0 And what do you know, from what I understand Dad says Gavin wasn&#8217;t drinking.\u00a0 Ain&#8217;t that a shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Gavin Hawk was sentenced to 19 to 23 months in jail for (in all probability) driving home drunk from a Carolina Hurricanes game and hitting and killing Spyk Quick on I-440.\u00a0 Most people think the sentence is light.\u00a0 Legally Gavin did the smart thing even though what he did was morally reprehensible. You see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/06\/30\/if-you-drive-drunk-and-hit-and-kill-someone-run\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you drive drunk and hit and kill someone, RUN!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}