{"id":11399,"date":"2010-06-15T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11399"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:45:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:45:38","slug":"nut-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11399","title":{"rendered":"Nut Magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Ed Kennedy was the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_kennedy_fbi_file;_ylt=AikPCSM5_wzgeAILRFEwIles0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNuMGdvZnQxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNjE0L3VzX2tlbm5lZHlfZmJpX2ZpbGUEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM2BHBvcwMzBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDZmJpZmlsZXNob3dz\">target of a staggering number<\/a><span style=\"color: #888888;\"> of death threats:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Edward Kennedy lived under constant assassination threats of his own, sometimes chillingly specific, as he became a target for extremist rage, previously private FBI documents disclosed Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn those violent Tea Partiers!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five years after President John F. Kennedy was killed and shortly after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot, one letter warned that the third brother was next: &#8220;Ted Kennedy number three to be assassinated on Oct. 25, 1968. The Kennedy residence must be well protected on that date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two decades later, in 1985, the threats continued, this time including the Republican president as well as the liberal Democratic senator: &#8220;Brass tacks, I&#8217;m gonna kill Kennedy and (President Ronald) Reagan, and I really mean it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who&#8217;da thunk it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Kennedy was the target of a staggering number of death threats: Sen. Edward Kennedy lived under constant assassination threats of his own, sometimes chillingly specific, as he became a target for extremist rage, previously private FBI documents disclosed Monday. Damn those violent Tea Partiers! Oh, wait&#8230;: Five years after President John F. Kennedy was [&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-11399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11402,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions\/11402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}