{"id":74814,"date":"2020-07-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74814"},"modified":"2020-07-27T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:42:11","slug":"seattle-smoke-em-if-you-got-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74814","title":{"rendered":"Seattle:  Smoke &#8216;Em If You Got &#8216;Em"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seattle cops, barred the use of tear gas and other non-lethal force, are telling businesses &#8220;sorry &#8211; you&#8217;re on your own&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SeattleCopLetter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74815\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SeattleCopLetter.jpg 728w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SeattleCopLetter-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that &#8220;keeping order&#8221; &#8211; making a city a safe place for law-abiding taxpayers to be &#8211; is one of local government&#8217;s most unambiguously legitimate missions, this should really wake all but the most deluded Seattleoids up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I said &#8216;should&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle cops, barred the use of tear gas and other non-lethal force, are telling businesses &#8220;sorry &#8211; you&#8217;re on your own&#8221;. Given that &#8220;keeping order&#8221; &#8211; making a city a safe place for law-abiding taxpayers to be &#8211; is one of local government&#8217;s most unambiguously legitimate missions, this should really wake all but the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-crime-and-punishment","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74814","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=74814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74816,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74814\/revisions\/74816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}