{"id":87913,"date":"2024-07-17T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87913"},"modified":"2024-07-17T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T11:22:00","slug":"thousand-points-of-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87913","title":{"rendered":"Thousand Points Of Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is trimming weeds while listening to &#8220;Office Ladies&#8221; on headphones.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE has come up the sidewalk, looking for evidence of herbicide use.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 (<em>Oblivious<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 The so-called &#8220;assassination attempt&#8221; was pretty much a fake.<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 (<em>No response, as he continues to listen to his podcast<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 It looks like his ear was cut by a piece of <em>glass!\u00a0 <\/em>What a drama queen!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 (<em>Nothin&#8217;<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>GUY RIDING PAST ON BIKE:\u00a0 So what do you think it was that accelerated this supposed piece of glass to a speed capable of taking a chunk out of the President&#8217;s ear?<\/p>\n<p>WOMAN WAITING AT BUS STOP ACROSS THE STREET:\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 Perhaps magic?<\/p>\n<p>GUY TRIMMING HEDGES DOWN THE BLOCK:\u00a0 Maybe the kids from Slytherin playing around with their wands again?<\/p>\n<p>LADY IN\u00a0 KITCHEN, LISTENING THROUGH WINDOW:\u00a0 Maybe it was Umbrella Man?<\/p>\n<p>BUS DRIVER (<em>Picking up the woman across the street<\/em>):\u00a0 Couldn&#8217;t have possibly been <em>a bullet aimed at the candidate&#8217;s head, <\/em>could it?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 (<em>Looks around, sheepishly slinks away as BERG continues along, undisturbed<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is trimming weeds while listening to &#8220;Office Ladies&#8221; on headphones.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE has come up the sidewalk, looking for evidence of herbicide use. LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg! BERG:\u00a0 (Oblivious) LIBRELLE:\u00a0 The so-called &#8220;assassination attempt&#8221; was pretty much a fake. BERG:\u00a0 (No response, as he continues to listen to his podcast) LIBRELLE:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,367,470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-trump","category-trump-assassination-attempt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87913","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=87913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87916,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87913\/revisions\/87916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}