{"id":73219,"date":"2020-02-03T06:11:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73219"},"modified":"2020-02-03T06:11:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:11:49","slug":"baited-switched-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73219","title":{"rendered":"Baited, Switched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Remember the gun buyback in Minneapolis in August of 2016? You wrote about it in a column entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60099\">Buyback Diary<\/a>.<br>I sold a couple of guns, got six gift cards worth\u00a0$25\u00a0each, issued by Sunrise Banks. I threw them in my range box for a rainy day.\u00a0 Money in the bank, right?<br>Nope. Sunrise Banks charges a\u00a0$5\u00a0fee per year. I just talked to the bank manager. The money is all gone. Should have read the fine print.<br>I would say something profound, like &#8220;I won&#8217;t make that mistake again.&#8221; Except I no longer have any guns to sell, having sold those two and lost all the rest in that tragic canoe accident.<br>Joe Doakes<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there anything about that buyback (read the link) that didn&#8217;t turn into comedy gold?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the gun buyback in Minneapolis in August of 2016? You wrote about it in a column entitled Buyback Diary.I sold a couple of guns, got six gift cards worth\u00a0$25\u00a0each, issued by Sunrise Banks. I threw them in my range box for a rainy day.\u00a0 Money in the bank, right?Nope. Sunrise Banks charges a\u00a0$5\u00a0fee per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73219","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=73219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73220,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73219\/revisions\/73220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}