{"id":42652,"date":"2014-03-25T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42652"},"modified":"2014-03-25T05:25:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:25:33","slug":"open-letter-to-every-single-news-reporter-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42652","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Every Single News Reporter In Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Every Single News Reporter In Minnesota (and pretty much everywhere else)<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant<br \/>\nRe:\u00a0 Spade Is Dead<\/p>\n<p>Dear every single news reporter in Minnesota,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s come to my attention for the 20th year in a row that some of you are falling back on the crutch that Kate Renner did in her story on the U of M kids fighting for their human right of self-defense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U of M freshman William Preachuk believes things could have ended differently if he&#8217;d been able to <strong>pack heat<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please be advised:\u00a0 Not a single actual person outside the news media has used the phrase &#8220;packing heat&#8221;, at least non-ironically, in close to 70 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Every Single News Reporter In Minnesota (and pretty much everywhere else) From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re:\u00a0 Spade Is Dead Dear every single news reporter in Minnesota, It&#8217;s come to my attention for the 20th year in a row that some of you are falling back on the crutch that Kate Renner did 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":[4],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-42652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652","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=42652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42654,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652\/revisions\/42654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}