{"id":79406,"date":"2021-09-03T05:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79406"},"modified":"2021-09-03T05:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:51:12","slug":"good-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79406","title":{"rendered":"Good Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/san-francisco-will-pay-people-not-to-shoot-other-citizens\/ar-AAO2dx5\">San Francisco <\/a>will pay you not to shoot people.  <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/jim-treacher\/2021\/02\/18\/baltimore-activist-wants-to-pay-criminals-not-to-kill-people-n1426509\">Baltimore<\/a> considering it.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It sounds like the old joke about getting <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomkeys.com\/hogs.htm\">paid not to raise hogs,<\/a> but apparently it&#8217;s real. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The government just gave fully-automatic machine guns to the Taliban.  They&#8217;re paying criminals not to shoot each other.  I&#8217;d like a full-auto machine gun and I won&#8217;t shoot anybody with it, pinkie-swear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>How do I get in on this action? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m just wondering how I would put in for back pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: San Francisco will pay you not to shoot people. Baltimore considering it. It sounds like the old joke about getting paid not to raise hogs, but apparently it&#8217;s real. The government just gave fully-automatic machine guns to the Taliban. They&#8217;re paying criminals not to shoot each other. I&#8217;d like [&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-79406","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\/79406","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=79406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79407,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79406\/revisions\/79407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}