{"id":26357,"date":"2009-04-17T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/17\/may-the-farce-be-with-you\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:57:46","slug":"may-the-farce-be-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/17\/may-the-farce-be-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"May the Farce be with you &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"11850\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2a011df645c10eea256439a8d15bf5e0-_45672224_000102186-1.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-2a011df645c10eea256439a8d15bf5e0-_45672224_000102186-1.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/form>\n<p>Eight of Scotland&#8217;s primary police department have listed their religion as Jedi.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strathclyde Police said the officers and two of its civilian staff claimed to follow the faith, which features in the Star Wars movies.<\/p>\n<p>The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane&#8217;s Police Review.<\/p>\n<p>Strathclyde was the only force in the UK to admit it had Jedi officers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently there are close to four hundred thousand Jedi in England and Wales.  Scotland has fourteen thousand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/glasgow_and_west\/8003067.stm\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight of Scotland&#8217;s primary police department have listed their religion as Jedi. Strathclyde Police said the officers and two of its civilian staff claimed to follow the faith, which features in the Star Wars movies. The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane&#8217;s Police Review. Strathclyde was the only force in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/17\/may-the-farce-be-with-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May the Farce be with you &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6R7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}