{"id":12214,"date":"2010-07-23T06:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2010-07-23T06:35:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:35:53","slug":"now-this-is-hardcore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12214","title":{"rendered":"Now <i>This<\/i> Is Hardcore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been driving, walking and riding by this shop for 23 years, now.\u00a0 And I figured I finally needed to pay them their due.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little Vietnamese repair garage in the Midway.\u00a0 And on top of the building is a flagpole.\u00a0 And atop the flagpole is Old Glory.<\/p>\n<p>And below it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4819938896_f2f26f7c13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;even 35\u00a0 years after the fall of Saigon, is the old Republic of Vietnam flag.<\/p>\n<p>They had one for many years that finally got ripped to shreds in the wind.\u00a0 So this year they replaced it.\u00a0 The Stars and Stripes are brand new and im-friggin-maculate.<\/p>\n<p>More immigrants like this, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been driving, walking and riding by this shop for 23 years, now.\u00a0 And I figured I finally needed to pay them their due. It&#8217;s a little Vietnamese repair garage in the Midway.\u00a0 And on top of the building is a flagpole.\u00a0 And atop the flagpole is Old Glory. And below it&#8230; &#8230;even 35\u00a0 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214","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=12214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12216,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions\/12216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}