{"id":1286,"date":"2007-09-10T05:34:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T10:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2007-09-07T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T21:34:51","slug":"paging-alanis-morissette-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Paging Alanis Morissette: Endangered Species"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joel Rosenberg notes a cruel, capricious irony<\/a> in a brutal local crime:<\/p>\n

Thom Pham, the owner of Azia, was mugged on Tuesday<\/a>.\u00a0 There were apparently six to eight attackers; fortunately, he only was “hospitalized with blunt force trauma to the head, lacerations to the skull and face, broken orbital (eye socket), concussion and severe bleeding.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0Azia’s a nice place.\u00a0 Had a date there once.\u00a0 But I doubt I’d go back – and not entirely because of the prices.\u00a0 No, I noticed the same thing Joel did:<\/p>\n

I’ve never eaten at Azia; it’s one of the very few restaurants in Minneapolis that still has those silly No Guns signs up, and I prefer to spend my money where there’s no formal or informal suggestion that either the customers or the staff have been disarmed for the convenience of garboons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0For those of you from out of state:\u00a0 Minnesota’s “shall issue” law was accompanied by a requirement saying that stores or businesses that wanted to exclude the law-abiding gun owner from their premises needed to post a sign to that effect on their doors.\u00a0 The first months after the passage of the Personal Protection Act saw a number of stores get posted, but the custom withered away pretty quickly; most proprietors realized that the law-abiding gun owner was both a non-risk and a pretty good customer; others responded to the reactions of long-time customers who, it turned out, were getting permits and donning concealed holsters and libertarian scruples.<\/p>\n

Mr. Pham’s place – marooned in the deepest, darkest, dankest DFL-sodden part of The Wedge neighborhood in Minneapolis – no doubt earned the odd kudo from the occasional frumpy “the state is my mother”-type local resident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So I wonder if the irony is lost on Mr. Pham?<\/p>\n

Hey, Thom?\u00a0 I’ve got an offer: take down the silly signs, buy Felicia and me dinner, and the class<\/a> is on me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Pham:\u00a0 Joel’s class is as good as Azia’s food.\u00a0 And that’s saying something on both counts.<\/p>\n

Go for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joel Rosenberg notes a cruel, capricious irony in a brutal local crime: Thom Pham, the owner of Azia, was mugged on Tuesday.\u00a0 There were apparently six to eight attackers; fortunately, he only was “hospitalized with blunt force trauma to the head, lacerations to the skull and face, broken orbital (eye socket), concussion and severe bleeding.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","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=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}