{"id":84722,"date":"2023-03-21T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84722"},"modified":"2023-03-21T09:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:53:23","slug":"metaphor-alert-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84722","title":{"rendered":"Metaphor Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A billion dollar train with nobody on it runs a stop signal and rams a car that had the right of way pinning it between it and another LRT train.  <\/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\">SHOCK DASHCAM: Video shared with us from a driver shows a Light Rail train slamming into a vehicle earlier tonight in a downtown Minneapolis intersection. The vehicle then became lodged in between two trains and the driver had to be extricated. Several <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GREFoyheMI\">https:\/\/t.co\/GREFoyheMI<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2WVvE5XQQ8\">pic.twitter.com\/2WVvE5XQQ8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MN CRIME (@MN_CRIME) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MN_CRIME\/status\/1638036515077881857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there a more perfect bunch of parallels for government in the Twin Cities these days? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A billion dollar train with nobody on it runs a stop signal and rams a car that had the right of way pinning it between it and another LRT train. Is there a more perfect bunch of parallels for government in the Twin Cities these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84722","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=84722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84723,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84722\/revisions\/84723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}