{"id":12719,"date":"2006-04-02T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/02\/the-shania-twain-defense\/"},"modified":"2006-04-02T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T16:18:00","slug":"the-shania-twain-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/02\/the-shania-twain-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Shania Twain Defense&#8221;?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/03\/28\/drunk-driver-shania060328.html\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;The Shania Twain Defense&rdquo;<\/a> is something real:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most notorious drunk drivers in the Ottawa area has been found not criminally responsible on his latest impaired driving charges because of a mental disorder that makes him believe female celebrities are controlling his actions.<br \/>&hellip;<br \/>The 33-year-old man told psychiatrists that he knew the legal repercussions of his actions, but believed singer Shania Twain was helping him drive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not since Johnnie Cochran&rsquo;s use of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chewbacca_defense\" target=\"_blank\">The Chewbacca Defense<\/a> on <i>South Park<\/i> has an attorney been this bold&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/alcohol\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/weird\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">weird<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/dick\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">dick<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114373431279623514?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe that &ldquo;The Shania Twain Defense&rdquo; is something real: One of the most notorious drunk drivers in the Ottawa area has been found not criminally responsible on his latest impaired driving charges because of a mental disorder that makes him believe female celebrities are controlling his actions.&hellip;The 33-year-old man told psychiatrists that he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/02\/the-shania-twain-defense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8220;Shania Twain Defense&#8221;?!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}