{"id":57306,"date":"2016-01-28T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57306"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:15:17","slug":"for-those-living-in-saint-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57306","title":{"rendered":"For Those Living In Saint Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city is looking for feedback (or, possibly, &#8220;looking for feedback&#8221;) in re a new police chief. \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpaul.gov\/departments\/planning-economic-development\/open-saint-paul?pd_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peakdemocracy.com%2Fportals%2F113%2FForum_668%2FIssue_3362#peak_democracy\">Here&#8217;s where to give that feedback<\/a>, if you live in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing chief Tim Smith seemed to regard the law-abiding gun owner as a bigger nuisance than criminals &#8211; notwithstanding that the law-abiding gun owner has a crime rate of roughly zero in this state.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be nice to get a pro-shooter chief &#8211; but given that the city\u00a0is generally run\u00a0by and for the Volvo-driving, Macalester-attending, Whole-Foods-shopping set, I&#8217;d be happy to get a chief who was knowledgeably neutral.<\/p>\n<p>So if you live in St. Paul, by all means provide your feedback, for whatever good it&#8217;ll do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city is looking for feedback (or, possibly, &#8220;looking for feedback&#8221;) in re a new police chief. \u00a0 Here&#8217;s where to give that feedback, if you live in the city. Outgoing chief Tim Smith seemed to regard the law-abiding gun owner as a bigger nuisance than criminals &#8211; notwithstanding that the law-abiding gun owner has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57306","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=57306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57307,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57306\/revisions\/57307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}