{"id":28970,"date":"2012-07-13T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28970"},"modified":"2012-07-13T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T16:22:07","slug":"making-our-streets-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28970","title":{"rendered":"Berg Institute Announces Politician Buy-Back Program!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Berg Institute &#8211; the nation&#8217;s foremost think tank on public safety and social policy [1] &#8211; is announcing a brand new program; the Politician Buy-Back!<\/p>\n<p>Today only, please bring any politicians you&#8217;d like to get off the street down to the Shot In The Dark comment center. \u00a0Toss &#8217;em in the box &#8211; in the comment section &#8211; no questions asked. \u00a0In exchange, you get a Mastercarp card good for $100 [2].<\/p>\n<p>So bring your politicians down and make our streets that much safer!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Berg Institute Senior Fellow Kermit for the idea.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[1] So sez we. \u00a0Hey, if the Brady Campaign, the Violence Policy Center and Paul Krugman can do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[2] The $100 will be deducted from your share of the national debt. \u00a0Card not good at retail stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berg Institute &#8211; the nation&#8217;s foremost think tank on public safety and social policy [1] &#8211; is announcing a brand new program; the Politician Buy-Back! Today only, please bring any politicians you&#8217;d like to get off the street down to the Shot In The Dark comment center. \u00a0Toss &#8217;em in the box &#8211; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28970","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=28970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28975,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28970\/revisions\/28975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}