{"id":5194,"date":"2009-08-06T05:56:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T10:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2009-08-06T05:56:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T10:56:32","slug":"at-least-theyre-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5194","title":{"rendered":"At Least They&#8217;re Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbor Peter over at <em>Growing Things <\/em>(he&#8217;s a garding machine) writes about an <a href=\"http:\/\/growingthings.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/panhandlers-with-tude.html\">encounter with some Minneapolis panhandlers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unlike most Twin Cities panhandlers, their faces didn&#8217;t bear the wear and tear of decades of addiction.<\/p>\n<p>While two lounged in the shade of a small tree, one held a hand-lettered sign which read:<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you voted for OBAMA, you owe me some CHANGE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I regret that I left my camera at home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbor Peter over at Growing Things (he&#8217;s a garding machine) writes about an encounter with some Minneapolis panhandlers: Unlike most Twin Cities panhandlers, their faces didn&#8217;t bear the wear and tear of decades of addiction. While two lounged in the shade of a small tree, one held a hand-lettered sign which read: If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","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=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}