{"id":84312,"date":"2023-01-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84312"},"modified":"2023-01-22T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:34:06","slug":"deja-vu-all-over-again-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84312","title":{"rendered":"Deja Vu All Over Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A shooting outside a police training center sparked riots in Atlanta Saturday night.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police say the deceased was an anti-facility activist who shot a State Patrolman before getting killed by the return fire.   The decedent&#8217;s, er, colleagues claim he was feeding puppies and getting old women across the street.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either way, it was mostly peaceful:<\/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\">Antifa is setting police cars on fire in Atlanta right now..<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DLa4CzjR4R\">pic.twitter.com\/DLa4CzjR4R<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ALX \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@alx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alx\/status\/1616982787583606785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No, really:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1616994446352187394\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I&#8217;m old enough to remember when &#8220;Freelance journalist&#8221; wasn&#8217;t shorthand for &#8220;itinerant leftist journalism grad student with a Twitter account&#8221;, he may have a point; there may not have been a visible leader. But leaders don&#8217;t need to be visible to lead; in fact, that&#8217;s probably a serious tactical advantage; ask any platoon leader when snipers are expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re baaack. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting outside a police training center sparked riots in Atlanta Saturday night. The police say the deceased was an anti-facility activist who shot a State Patrolman before getting killed by the return fire. The decedent&#8217;s, er, colleagues claim he was feeding puppies and getting old women across the street. Either way, it was mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84312","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=84312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84313,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84312\/revisions\/84313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}