{"id":37148,"date":"2013-07-08T07:36:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37148"},"modified":"2013-07-08T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:40:05","slug":"i-know-it-was-a-rhetorical-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37148","title":{"rendered":"I Know It Was A Rhetorical Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were ten dead and 55 wounded in gun-free Chicago over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The carnage impelled one Chicagoan to wonder (with emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d said Rashauda Tolbert, a niece of [one of the weekend&#8217;s victims]. \u201cKids can\u2019t play outside. People can\u2019t sit on their porches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shooting has been going on for days,\u201d said Tolbert, who she was on her way to her security job when she heard about what happened and rushed back to her family. <strong>\u201cWhy we gotta be prisoners in our homes?\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple, Ms. Tolbert.\u00a0 Because you live in a city where the government fears the law-abiding citizen more than the gang-bangers that are destroying your neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were ten dead and 55 wounded in gun-free Chicago over the weekend. The carnage impelled one Chicagoan to wonder (with emphasis added by me): \u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d said Rashauda Tolbert, a niece of [one of the weekend&#8217;s victims]. \u201cKids can\u2019t play outside. People can\u2019t sit on their porches. \u201cThe shooting has been going on for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148","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=37148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37149,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148\/revisions\/37149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}