{"id":71616,"date":"2019-06-27T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71616"},"modified":"2019-06-23T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T21:59:30","slug":"safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71616","title":{"rendered":"Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Not all government safety regulations are an idiotic waste of time. A window washer just fell off our building. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A-Window-PNG-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A-Window-PNG-576x1024.png 576w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A-Window-PNG-169x300.png 169w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A-Window-PNG-768x1365.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A-Window-PNG.png 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The platform is attached by ropes to a metal contraption on the roof, but the metal contraption didn&#8217;t have enough weight so when the worker went over the edge, the contraption did too. The harness caught, swung the worker into the window, then dangled upside down until a ladder could be brought to lower her to safety. Yes, the window washer is a woman. Banged up her leg but the EMTs who took her away said she seemed okay. I guess my job doesn&#8217;t suck so badly after all.<br>I&#8230;Woman is damn lucky to be alive, that safety harness saved her life.<br>Joe doakes<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Laws that directly affect public safety?  Good.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laws that direct affect who you can have haul your trash away?  Not so good.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s all that complicated.  Which is why I&#8221;ll never be an elected official in Saint Paul.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all government safety regulations are an idiotic waste of time. A window washer just fell off our building. The platform is attached by ropes to a metal contraption on the roof, but the metal contraption didn&#8217;t have enough weight so when the worker went over the edge, the contraption did too. The harness caught, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71616","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=71616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71625,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71616\/revisions\/71625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}