{"id":199,"date":"2006-12-13T06:21:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/13\/nothing-more-to-say\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T06:21:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T12:21:07","slug":"nothing-more-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Nothing More To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve ta<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/007415.html\">ken my swipes<\/a> at Nick Coleman before. \u00a0 He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/004800.html\">deserved<\/a> quite a few.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also written some good stuff. Yesterday&#8217;s was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/357\/story\/869561.html\">one of his best<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So the most infamous of the city&#8217;s 59 murders of 2006 closes with tears, a life sentenced to rot in prison, and a mystery. No one may ever understand how a 21-year-old with nothing on his record to warn he might kill, who was not a gangster &#8212; &#8220;not a menace to society,&#8221; as his mom, Yolanda, tearfully told the judge &#8212; how it came to a point he sprayed an entertainment block with gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s not the worst person we&#8217;ve encountered in this system,&#8221; the judge said, noting that Holliday showed some remorse after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Holliday had been in AmeriCorps, helped build a house for a homeless family, worked at the Y, was hoping to go to college and had a chance to turn out OK. Somehow, he ended up on a street with a gun. And he took two lives &#8212; Alan Reitter&#8217;s and his own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken my swipes at Nick Coleman before. \u00a0 He&#8217;s deserved quite a few. He&#8217;s also written some good stuff. Yesterday&#8217;s was one of his best: So the most infamous of the city&#8217;s 59 murders of 2006 closes with tears, a life sentenced to rot in prison, and a mystery. No one may ever understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}