{"id":2885,"date":"2008-07-17T05:20:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2008-07-17T05:20:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T10:20:22","slug":"close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"Close Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, awash in gang crime, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc5.com\/news\/16901117\/detail.html\">getting desperate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The summer of 2008 will be remembered as especially violent. Blagojevich said there&#8217;s been a child shot nearly every day since June 26. Bringing in state troopers &#8212; even National Guard helicopters to high-crime areas &#8212; is still very much in the planning stages.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said Chicago Mayor Richard Daley hasn&#8217;t asked for help, but Blagojevich said he&#8217;ll call the mayor once he has some concrete suggestions about what help he can provide. He didn&#8217;t have many specifics, but he said it&#8217;s more likely that state police will be brought in than the National Guard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew. Good thing it&#8217;s still almost completely impossible for the <em>law-abiding citizen<\/em> to get a gun in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Goodness knows <em>what<\/em> would happen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, awash in gang crime, is getting desperate: The summer of 2008 will be remembered as especially violent. Blagojevich said there&#8217;s been a child shot nearly every day since June 26. Bringing in state troopers &#8212; even National Guard helicopters to high-crime areas &#8212; is still very much in the planning stages. The governor said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}