{"id":3238,"date":"2008-09-05T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2008-09-05T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:52:53","slug":"whilst-standing-on-the-john-ireland-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3238","title":{"rendered":"Whilst Standing On The John Ireland Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We &#8211; Kevin Ecker and I &#8211; were standing about fifty yards behind the police line with about eight other civilians, most of them with cameras.\u00a0 Most of the other civilians had obvious signs of non-GOP sympathy; T-shirts, buttons, whatever.\u00a0 I kept my own beliefs pretty quiet all afternoon while wandering among them; I certainly kept my AM1280 ID badge in my pocket.\u00a0 I figured discretion is the better part of <strike>valor<\/strike> thrillseeking.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of cops in military uniforms walked up from behind and asked us to move north off the bridge and back off the street.\u00a0 The ten or so of us turned around and started trudging up the hill.<\/p>\n<p>A lingerie-model hot woman with a digital SLR quipped &#8220;so it&#8217;s a police state!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been listening to this crap all day.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t take any more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this were a police state&#8221;, I said just loudly enough for everyone to hear, &#8220;the protesters would already be dead&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t really talk with me anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We &#8211; Kevin Ecker and I &#8211; were standing about fifty yards behind the police line with about eight other civilians, most of them with cameras.\u00a0 Most of the other civilians had obvious signs of non-GOP sympathy; T-shirts, buttons, whatever.\u00a0 I kept my own beliefs pretty quiet all afternoon while wandering among them; I certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}