{"id":1168,"date":"2007-08-07T17:24:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T22:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2007-08-07T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T22:27:23","slug":"so-it-wasnt-the-no-new-taxes-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"So It <i>Wasn&#8217;t<\/i> the &#8220;No New Taxes&#8221; Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phred Phelps <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2184\">knows what caused the 35W Bridge to collapse<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., plans to stage protests at funerals of victims of the 35W bridge collapse to state that God made the bridge fall because he hates America, and especially Minnesota, because of its tolerance of homosexuality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, Phelps is coming to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godhatesfags.com\/fliers\/aug2007\/20070802_minneapolis-bridge-collapse.pdf\">In a press release issued the day after the bridge collapse, <\/a>the church called for protests at the funerals and outlined its feelings about the relationship between God&#8217;s plan and the sins of Minneapolis and Minnesota, which it calls the &#8220;land of the Sodomite damned.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If any Patriot Riders are involved in this and are organizing anything, please drop me a line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 D&#8217;oh!\u00a0 The Patriot Riders won&#8217;t be showing up; they exist to honor veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phred Phelps knows what caused the 35W Bridge to collapse&#8230;: The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., plans to stage protests at funerals of victims of the 35W bridge collapse to state that God made the bridge fall because he hates America, and especially Minnesota, because of its tolerance of homosexuality. Oh, Phelps is coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}