{"id":82015,"date":"2022-05-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82015"},"modified":"2022-05-10T22:46:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:46:37","slug":"one-evening-somewhere-in-a-blue-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82015","title":{"rendered":"One Evening, Somewhere In A Blue City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:   Long after dark, in a ratty but not necessarily malevolent commercial and office district, in an unnamed &#8220;blue&#8221; city.  A Hyundai crossover pulls up to the curb, in front of a relatively pristine, whitewashed brick wall on the side of a church.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stacey HINTON, Executive Director of \u201cKeep All Racists Eternally Nonplussed\u201d, a white progressive support group, steps out of the vehicle.   She furtively looks around, pulls a can of spray paint out of a bag, and starts to spray paint something on the white wall.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gradually, it resolves into:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;If abortion isn&#8217;t safe, either are you&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>HINTON hurriedly climbs back into the Hyundai, and drives away. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Minutes pass. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Another car &#8211; a 1990 Dodge Ram &#8211; pulls up to the same spot.   After a moment, Mitch BERG climbs out, and reads the graffiti.  He shakes his head, mildly disgusted.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He looks around and, improbably and incredibly, notes a &#8220;Planned Parenthood&#8221; clinic which, oddly enough, is right across the parking lot from the now-vandalized church. <\/em> <em>It has a pristine, if dingy, yellow wall facing the parking lot.  BERG saunters across the lot, checks his six, and pulls a can of spray paint from his cargo pocket.  Slowly and vaguely legibly, he sprays the wall. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;If you threaten me and mine with political violence, finding an abortion is going to be the least of your problems&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>BERG walks back to his truck, and drives away. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Long after dark, in a ratty but not necessarily malevolent commercial and office district, in an unnamed &#8220;blue&#8221; city. A Hyundai crossover pulls up to the curb, in front of a relatively pristine, whitewashed brick wall on the side of a church. Stacey HINTON, Executive Director of \u201cKeep All Racists Eternally Nonplussed\u201d, a white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82015","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=82015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82016,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82015\/revisions\/82016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}