{"id":123,"date":"2011-10-21T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=123"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:15:51","slug":"kelly-used-hard-work-to-survive-hard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Kelly used hard work to survive hard time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Oct. 21, 2011<\/p>\n<p class=\"style66\">How would\u00a0<em>you<\/em>\u00a0handle six years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted?\u00a0Here\u2019s how Bob Kelly did it:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style66\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111021Kelly.jpg\" alt=\"111021Kelly\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/>\u201cIn jail (in Chowan County before being found guilty) there was nothing but sitting and waiting. Central Prison was easier \u2013 I could work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style66\">\u201cA warden told me, \u2018Whoever kills Bob Kelly will have a trophy. I can put you in lockup, where you\u2019ll be safe.\u2019 But that would\u2019ve meant spending 23 hours a day in a cell. I said, \u2018Put me in the general population. I\u2019ve got 12 life sentences, and I\u2019m not going to do my time hiding.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style66\">\u201cBut I tried to be smart. It was two years before I went outside in the yard. All I could think of was, if I got in a fight, how would that affect the appellate court?&#8230; Only one time did a jailhouse gangster lay his hands on me, and I realized I had to stand up to him to keep it from happening again&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style66\">\u201cMy first job was janitor in G block. I waxed the floor, emptied the trash, kept it like my home. They don\u2019t allow bleach, because it would get thrown in the guards\u2019 eyes, but I managed to talk a guy in the laundry room out of a bottle. It was great for spraying down the showers. My block was the only one in the whole prison that smelled like Clorox&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style66\">\u201cMy next job was running the canteen for lockup. The guys who had been there before me had watered down the Cokes and coffee and pocketed the difference. I wanted to run the best canteen I could, so I started giving full measure&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style66\">\u201cYou know what the other prisoners said? \u2018You\u2019re stupid \u2013 don\u2019t you know you could be making money?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 21, 2011 How would\u00a0you\u00a0handle six years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted?\u00a0Here\u2019s how Bob Kelly did it: \u201cIn jail (in Chowan County before being found guilty) there was nothing but sitting and waiting. Central Prison was easier \u2013 I could work. \u201cA warden told me, \u2018Whoever kills Bob Kelly will have a trophy. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}