{"id":3525,"date":"2008-10-23T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:43:39","slug":"cuts-down-on-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"Cuts Down On Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mail delivery stops in on a Chicago-area block\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/local\/shooting.stops.mail.2.846703.html\">deemed too dangerous by the Post Office<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dozens of mailboxes remain empty after the post office suspends service in one south suburban neighborhood&#8230;The U.S. Post Office seems to think that this is one of the most dangerous blocks in the country. People who live on it say they haven&#8217;t gotten any mail delivered to their homes in almost two weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How dangerous?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Between robberies and shootings and delayed police response, several things going on, that would make it unsafe,&#8221; said Harvey resident Venus Jones.<\/p>\n<p>One of those shootings on the morning of October 10th reportedly happened yards away from the mail carrier. That&#8217;s when the mail stopped on Marshfield between 151st and 152nd streets, but the post office didn&#8217;t tell anyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the people didn&#8217;t even know that it was being held at the post office,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Now Jones, who says her own home has been broken into <strong>three times in 30 days <\/strong>is talking to her neighbors about the mail problem and what should happen next.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds bad.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing the rights of the\u00a0the <em>law abiding citizens<\/em> in the area to own guns are more tightly restricted than any place in the country!\u00a0 Goodness knows how bad it&#8217;d be <em>then, <\/em>right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mail delivery stops in on a Chicago-area block\u00a0 deemed too dangerous by the Post Office: Dozens of mailboxes remain empty after the post office suspends service in one south suburban neighborhood&#8230;The U.S. Post Office seems to think that this is one of the most dangerous blocks in the country. People who live on it say [&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":[245],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament","tag-bergs-10th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","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=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33304,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/33304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}