{"id":63412,"date":"2017-06-09T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63412"},"modified":"2017-06-08T08:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:25:46","slug":"ill-cop-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63412","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Cop To It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/london-bridge-terror-attack-fk-fuck-you-im-millwall-hero-roy-larner-football-fan-lion-of-london-a7775246.html\">this kind of story<\/a>; Roy Larner, a 47 year old\u00a0bloke from London, took on three knife-swinging terrorists with his fists, yelling &#8220;F**k yoiu, I&#8217;m Millwall&#8221; (a Brit soccer team):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now out of the intensive care ward of St Thomas\u2019 Hospital, where he was treated for knife wounds all over his body including his neck, the father-of-one has told The Sun how he reacted when the killers burst into the restaurant shouting \u201cIslam, Islam\u201d and \u201cThis is for Allah\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike an idiot,\u201d he told the newspaper, \u201cI shouted back at them. I thought, \u2018I need to take the p*** out of these b******s\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took a few steps towards them and said, \u2018F*** you, I\u2019m Millwall\u2019. So they started attacking me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No mythmaking needed; Larner is pretty sober about the actual consequences of what he did; he was stabbed eight times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was the worst thing I could have done as they carried on attacking me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily, none of the blows were straight at me or I\u2019d be dead.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again &#8211; such a good thing the British people are utterly disarmed; who knows how bad things could&#8217;ve gotten?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for this kind of story; Roy Larner, a 47 year old\u00a0bloke from London, took on three knife-swinging terrorists with his fists, yelling &#8220;F**k yoiu, I&#8217;m Millwall&#8221; (a Brit soccer team): Now out of the intensive care ward of St Thomas\u2019 Hospital, where he was treated for knife wounds all over his body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63412","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=63412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63414,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63412\/revisions\/63414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}