{"id":2097,"date":"2008-02-08T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2008-02-08T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T21:40:18","slug":"sublime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2097","title":{"rendered":"Sublime…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Demko’s cover story in this week’s City Pages <\/em>is the sort of stuff that the Pages <\/em>do best, when they bother; cover a regional story that nobody else will bother with, and do it very, very well.<\/p>\n

In this case, it’s a story about Saint Paul’s High Bridge<\/a> over the Mississippi – its history, and its long-standing attraction to suicides:<\/p>\n

Johnson parked her car on Cherokee Avenue and walked out onto the imposing structure, which soars some 150 feet above the roiling Mississippi River waters. At 5 a.m., the bridge was deserted\u2014the morning commute wouldn’t start for a couple of hours yet. She could see stunning views of the city’s downtown skyline, the Cathedral of St. Paul, and the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

Looking down into the water, all she could see was inky blackness. It was a strangely comforting abyss. She climbed up onto the two-foot railing and clung to a lamppost. For the first time in months, her mind was empty.<\/p>\n

Then she let go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A great (if sobering) story<\/a>, delivered with facts and <\/em>humanity.\u00a0 Well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Demko’s cover story in this week’s City Pages is the sort of stuff that the Pages do best, when they bother; cover a regional story that nobody else will bother with, and do it very, very well. In this case, it’s a story about Saint Paul’s High Bridge over the Mississippi – its history, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","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=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}