{"id":66113,"date":"2018-03-01T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66113"},"modified":"2018-03-19T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T14:52:34","slug":"an-inconvenient-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66113","title":{"rendered":"An Inconvenient Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is salting his sidewalk.\u00a0 \u00a0Absorbed in achieving a proper dispersion pattern, he doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE, walking up behind.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0(<em>Turns, mild suprrise followed by disappoinment<\/em>).\u00a0 Oh, hey, Avery.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Gun owners are stupid.<\/p>\n<p>BERG&#8221;\u00a0 Naturally.\u00a0 \u00a0Why this time?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 They think someone is coming (<em>BERG reaches into his inside coat pocket<\/em>) for their (<em>BERG hands a trifolded piece of paper to LIBRELLE<\/em>) guns&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><em>LIBRELLE starts reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66090\">LInda Slocum&#8217;s House File 1322<\/a>, which calls for sweeping confiscations of guns and the systematic extermination of the right of privacy.\u00a0 As LIBRELLE falls silent, LIBRELLE&#8217;s jaw keeps slowly flapping, like a beached fish, bill in hand.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Careful when you start walking agian.\u00a0 Neighbor&#8217;s sidewalk&#8217;s pretty icy.<\/p>\n<p><em>BERG goes inside, hauling shovel and remaining salt.\u00a0 \u00a0LIBRELLE stands, ,jaw flapping impotently, as camera fades to black.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is salting his sidewalk.\u00a0 \u00a0Absorbed in achieving a proper dispersion pattern, he doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE, walking up behind.\u00a0\u00a0 LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg! BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0(Turns, mild suprrise followed by disappoinment).\u00a0 Oh, hey, Avery. LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Gun owners are stupid. BERG&#8221;\u00a0 Naturally.\u00a0 \u00a0Why this time? LIBRELLE:\u00a0 They think someone is coming (BERG reaches into his inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-66113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66113","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=66113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66114,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66113\/revisions\/66114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}