{"id":89644,"date":"2025-05-21T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89644"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:47:58","slug":"cruel-unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89644","title":{"rendered":"Cruel.   Unusual?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, formally of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I recently took a full flight from Fort Myers to Minneapolis with children crying and puppies whimpering. The only thing different from a converted South American school bus is the rooster.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0The puppy is not angry, it is frightened. I so wanted to confront the woman: &#8220;Why do you have a frightened puppy on this airplane?\u00a0 Because it&#8217;s your comfort animal?\u00a0 Really? It comforts you to terrify puppies?\u00a0 What kind of monster are you?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I\u2019m just happy when nobody brings a goat on board, TBH.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Also: they should allow people with no overhead storage to leave the plane before everyone who has to spend five minutes leisurely digging around for the dorm fridge, they stowed overhead starts futzing about.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, formally of Como Park, emails: I recently took a full flight from Fort Myers to Minneapolis with children crying and puppies whimpering. The only thing different from a converted South American school bus is the rooster. \u00a0 \u00a0The puppy is not angry, it is frightened. I so wanted to confront the woman: &#8220;Why [&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-89644","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\/89644","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=89644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89645,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89644\/revisions\/89645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}