{"id":5204,"date":"2009-08-06T05:31:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T10:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2009-08-06T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T10:31:23","slug":"when-remembering-sixth-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5204","title":{"rendered":"When Remembering Sixth Grade&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the other day, I tried to place some world events during the year.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mayaguez <\/em>incident, of course; the fallout of Watergate; the fall of Saigon, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and Squeaky Fromme&#8217;s attempt on Gerald Ford.<\/p>\n<p>And, blow me down, but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_manson_follower_ford\">Frommeis finally out of the joint:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lynette &#8220;Squeaky&#8221; Fromme was a 26-year-old disciple of the cult murderer Manson when she aimed a semiautomatic .45- caliber pistol at Ford in September 1975 in Sacramento, Calif. Secret Service agents grabbed her and Ford was unhurFromme, now 60, is scheduled to be released on parole from the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth on Aug. 16, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the court-appointed attorney who represented her at trial.<\/p>\n<p>Fromme, who got a life term, became the first person sentenced under a special federal law covering assaults on U.S. presidents, a statute enacted after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any dibs on being <em>her <\/em>counselor?<\/p>\n<p>Rumors of her imminent appointment as the Obama Administration&#8217;s Mental Health Czar are, at this juncture, unconfirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the other day, I tried to place some world events during the year. The Mayaguez incident, of course; the fallout of Watergate; the fall of Saigon, of course&#8230; &#8230;and Squeaky Fromme&#8217;s attempt on Gerald Ford. And, blow me down, but Frommeis finally out of the joint: Lynette &#8220;Squeaky&#8221; Fromme was a 26-year-old disciple of the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","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=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}