{"id":147,"date":"2006-11-29T07:09:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/29\/good-guys-1-criminals-0-media-15\/"},"modified":"2014-09-29T19:33:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T00:33:46","slug":"good-guys-1-criminals-0-media-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Good Guys 1, Criminals 0, Media -15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homeowner kills intruder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gerald Whaley told police that he was home alone when he heard what sounded like several intruders breaking in through his garage about 11 p.m. Minutes later, he shot a burglar once with the .22-caliber rifle he kept loaded by his bed. The intruder stumbled downstairs and collapsed in the home on the 11700 block of Bittersweet Street.<\/p>\n<p>Whaley, who had no phone, got dressed, climbed out onto a second-floor deck and went next door to call police. The intruder was dead when police found the youth, whose name wasn&#8217;t released Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then the Strib reporter dug up a Dostoyevskian biography on Mr. Whaley, detailing years of housing code citations &#8211; possibly germane to the shooting &#8211;\u00a0and his battle with the Anoka-Hennepin School Board, which isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same Strib that figured that reporting Alan Fine&#8217;s <em>complete innocence <\/em>of a charge in a\u00a035 inch story\u00a0reported on page A1 was being excessively thorough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeowner kills intruder: Gerald Whaley told police that he was home alone when he heard what sounded like several intruders breaking in through his garage about 11 p.m. Minutes later, he shot a burglar once with the .22-caliber rifle he kept loaded by his bed. The intruder stumbled downstairs and collapsed in the home on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-victim-disarmament","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","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=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47556,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/47556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}