{"id":73426,"date":"2020-02-28T11:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73426"},"modified":"2020-02-28T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:16:51","slug":"spitting-in-your-coffee-and-calling-it-a-dumpling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73426","title":{"rendered":"Spitting In Your Soup And Calling It A &#8220;Dumpling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the<em> Southwest News <\/em>reports, city governments in the southwest metro are getting ready to try to deal with the plague that no DFL-dominated city government dare name; crime descending upon them via the light rail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article explains the basics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought this bit here was particularly interesting (and I&#8217;ve added all emphasis):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Metro Transit communications and outreach manager Sam O\u2019Connell echoed [Metropolitan Council Chair Charlie] Zelle\u2019s sentiment that th<strong>e increased disturbances on public transit are signs that the light rail, now 16 years old, has become a part of the community fabric.<\/strong> Addressing these problems will take a multi-pronged approach, she added.<\/p><p>\u201cPart of this is <strong>just a maturation of the system<\/strong>,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s ever a silver bullet that will reduce all of this altogether.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Catch that?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crime, vandalism, blight, fear, predation &#8211; they aren&#8217;t signs of decay anymore.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re signs of &#8220;maturation&#8221; into the &#8220;community fabric&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some future edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, this quote may wind up as part of the definition of the phrase &#8220;Racism (classism, whatever) of low expectations&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And probably of &#8220;moving the goalposts&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Southwest News reports, city governments in the southwest metro are getting ready to try to deal with the plague that no DFL-dominated city government dare name; crime descending upon them via the light rail. The article explains the basics. I thought this bit here was particularly interesting (and I&#8217;ve added all emphasis): Metro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426","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=73426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73428,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426\/revisions\/73428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}