{"id":74325,"date":"2020-06-04T05:54:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74325"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:09","slug":"74325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74325","title":{"rendered":"Off Boat Pushed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter&#8217;s dad was a cop.&nbsp; I wonder what he thinks, seeing what his son has let the city come to.<br>Businesses at the intersection of Como, Front, and Dale Street, a mile or so from Mitch&#8217;s house. Sign says: &#8220;RIP George Floyd, BLM, minority-owned.&#8221;<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200531_193023-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200531_193023-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200531_193023-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200531_193023-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200531_193023-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200531_193023-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200531_193023-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Hoping to be eaten last is not a winning business strategy. But it&#8217;s all that&#8217;s left in St Paul.<\/em><\/p><p><em>Joe Doakes<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what occurred to me last Thursday, watching &#8220;black-owned&#8221;, &#8220;minority-owned&#8221; or, in some absurd cases, &#8220;community owned&#8221; businesses frantically post themselves to throw their white neighbors under the bus (not always successfully &#8211; Mexican restaurants in Minneapolis looked particularly hard-hit). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter&#8217;s dad was a cop.&nbsp; I wonder what he thinks, seeing what his son has let the city come to.Businesses at the intersection of Como, Front, and Dale Street, a mile or so from Mitch&#8217;s house. Sign says: &#8220;RIP George Floyd, BLM, minority-owned.&#8221; Hoping to be eaten last is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-74325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","tag-george-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74325","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=74325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74328,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74325\/revisions\/74328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}