{"id":67481,"date":"2018-07-23T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67481"},"modified":"2018-07-22T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:38:47","slug":"play-stupid-games-get-stupid-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67481","title":{"rendered":"Play Stupid Games, Get Stupid Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Story 1:<\/p>\n<p>Some guy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2018\/07\/17\/bicyclist-killed-downtown-minneapolis\">riding a bicycle<\/a> in downtown Minneapolis at 11:30 at night.\u00a0 Blows a red light, collided with a motorcycle and was struck by a car.<\/p>\n<p>Plainly, the drivers of the motorcycle and car, being wanton spewers of carbon dioxide poisoning our Mother the Earth, were at fault for failing to recognize the moral superiority of the bicycle rider and to acknowledge his right to disregard the traffic laws governing lesser mortals<\/p>\n<p>Story 2:<\/p>\n<p>Some gal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2018\/07\/17\/bicycle-versus-lift-bridge-what-could-possibly-go-wrong\">riding a bicycle<\/a> in Stillwater weaves around the barrier and falls into the river when the lift bridge began to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Plainly, the bridge operator and the pilot of the boat for whom the bridge was opening, being wanton spewers of carbon dioxide poisoning our Mother the Earth, were at fault for failing to recognize the moral superiority of the bicycle rider and to acknowledge her right to disregard traffic laws governing lesser mortals.<\/p>\n<p>Plainly, there is a crisis in Minnesota.\u00a0 When will Governor Dayton act??\u00a0 When??<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As biking has become more popular (especially in places like the Twin Cities, were perverse incentives drive a lot of people to bikes), it&#8217;s axiomatic that a lot of those new people will not know what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Story 1: Some guy riding a bicycle in downtown Minneapolis at 11:30 at night.\u00a0 Blows a red light, collided with a motorcycle and was struck by a car. Plainly, the drivers of the motorcycle and car, being wanton spewers of carbon dioxide poisoning our Mother the Earth, were at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67481","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=67481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67482,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67481\/revisions\/67482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}