{"id":84956,"date":"2023-04-19T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84956"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:34:17","slug":"blue-america-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84956","title":{"rendered":"Blue America Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been inadvertently mis-scheduling posts lately.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a busy week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But my work ethic doesn&#8217;t like having just one post for a day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; how about Chicago: Mobs (plural) of teens not at all stochastically terrorize <em>THE FREAKING LOOP<\/em>:<\/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\">How about deploying the National Guard NOW before the ENTIRE city of Chicago has been totally destroyed?  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MdBBHuCoBP\">pic.twitter.com\/MdBBHuCoBP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksortor\/status\/1647466108637655040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, to put it in the mob&#8217;s own words and pictures:<\/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\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1648509759132409861\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One couple who got mobbed and rescued by a good samaritan as the Chicago PD drove languidly past:<\/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\">Downtown beating witness: &#39;They were going to kill that young man&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanaRebikWGN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DanaRebikWGN<\/a> has more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mE6XEPNIy3\">pic.twitter.com\/mE6XEPNIy3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lauren Jiggetts (@laurenjiggetts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenjiggetts\/status\/1648619750518321152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;young man&#8221;, the boyfriend in the piece above, was black, btw.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fearless prediction:  it&#8217;s coming to Minneapolis.  This summer.  Just you watch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been inadvertently mis-scheduling posts lately.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a busy week.\u00a0 But my work ethic doesn&#8217;t like having just one post for a day.\u00a0\u00a0 So &#8211; how about Chicago: Mobs (plural) of teens not at all stochastically terrorize THE FREAKING LOOP: Or, to put it in the mob&#8217;s own words and pictures: One couple who [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84956","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=84956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84961,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84956\/revisions\/84961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}