{"id":77026,"date":"2021-03-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77026"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:06:27","slug":"the-darkness-before-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77026","title":{"rendered":"The Darkness Before The Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> A longtime friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With the impending Derek Chauvin trial, the fortification of the 4th Precinct has begun this morning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_081235-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77025\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_081235-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_081235-300x139.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_081235-1024x473.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_081235-768x355.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_081235-1536x710.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_081235-2048x947.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_081235-500x231.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A wall of cement traffic barricades are being set around the perimeter.  Back last summer it was reinforced with razor wire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_080717-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77023\" width=\"592\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_080717-scaled.jpg 1183w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_080717-139x300.jpg 139w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_080717-473x1024.jpg 473w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_080717-768x1662.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_080717-710x1536.jpg 710w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210226_080717-947x2048.jpg 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> I am so deeply saddened by what has happened to my city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sad.  And disgusted.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76956\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"76956\">Kevin Williamson was right<\/a>.  This isn&#8217;t decay.  This is municipal suicide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime friend of the blog emails: With the impending Derek Chauvin trial, the fortification of the 4th Precinct has begun this morning. A wall of cement traffic barricades are being set around the perimeter. Back last summer it was reinforced with razor wire. I am so deeply saddened by what has happened to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,7,17],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-77026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","tag-chauvin-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77026","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=77026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77029,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77026\/revisions\/77029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}