{"id":3594,"date":"2008-11-04T13:02:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2008-11-04T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:08:10","slug":"but-hes-not-bitter-or-a-jesus-freak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3594","title":{"rendered":"But He&#8217;s Not Bitter Or A Jesus Freak&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A flag-waving gunman <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081103\/ap_on_re_us\/highway_gunman_6\">closes down traffic in Santa Barbara, California<\/a>\u00a0for hours&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;until he&#8217;s allowed to carry out his demand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A masked gunman waving an <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1225746469_0\">American flag<\/span> and a handgun on a freeway overpass surrendered to police Monday after forcing a traffic shutdown for hours.<\/p>\n<p>The man gave himself up at midmorning west of downtown <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1225746469_1\">Santa Barbara<\/span> at <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1225746469_2\">Highway 101<\/span>, a major route along the California coast. No shots were fired. Traffic was backed at least three miles in each direction.<\/p>\n<p>The man agreed to give up a<strong>fter he was allowed to attach a <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1225746469_3\">Barack Obama campaign sign<\/span> <\/strong>and the flag to the overpass railing, said police Sgt. Jim Pfleging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Audacious, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flag-waving gunman closes down traffic in Santa Barbara, California\u00a0for hours&#8230; &#8230;until he&#8217;s allowed to carry out his demand: A masked gunman waving an American flag and a handgun on a freeway overpass surrendered to police Monday after forcing a traffic shutdown for hours. The man gave himself up at midmorning west of downtown Santa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","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=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}