{"id":80366,"date":"2021-12-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80366"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:37:24","slug":"and-so-this-is-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80366","title":{"rendered":"And So This Is Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Minneapolis is, as of yesterday, at 93 homicides for 2021 so far.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MINNEAPOLIS: The city has had 93 homicides in 2021. The highest \u201crecorded\u201d number is 96 in 1995. The city of St. Paul broke its homicide record this year.<\/p>&mdash; Markie Kelly (@MarcTwinCities) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcTwinCities\/status\/1473151995271856128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The record, during the Murderapolis years, was either 95 or 97, depending on your source.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Context?  Sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016 there were 82 unjustified homicides&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;in the entire state of Minnesota.  30 of them were in Minneapolis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whenever the DFL used to win elections by lopsided margins, they&#8217;d drunkenly chant &#8220;We own this city!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yep, chuckleheads.  You sure do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis is, as of yesterday, at 93 homicides for 2021 so far. The record, during the Murderapolis years, was either 95 or 97, depending on your source. Context? Sure. In 2016 there were 82 unjustified homicides&#8230; &#8230;in the entire state of Minnesota. 30 of them were in Minneapolis. Whenever the DFL used to win elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,17,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats","category-minneapolis","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80366","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=80366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80367,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80366\/revisions\/80367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}