{"id":131,"date":"2004-02-17T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2004-02-17T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T03:09:12","slug":"back-that-ass-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Back that Ass up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the man that was shot two blocks from my house yesterday was <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.cbc.ca\/regional\/servlet\/View?filename=bc_murder20040217\"target=\"_blank\"> targeted.<\/a>  &#8220;I&#8217;d like to assure the public that this incident did not involve the general public, that we suspect that this victim was targeted and it was a deliberate shooting,&#8221; sez the coppy. Groovy. (let&#8217;s not get into the semantics of &#8220;it was a deliberate shooting&#8221;) But the guys what did it are still running loose, possibly in my neighbourhood.  You&#8217;ll forgive me if I don&#8217;t shout hip hip hooray just yet.  Random or not, they shot a man dead in the middle of Boundary road at four in the afternoon.  They&#8217;re crrrrrrrrrrraaaaazy!<\/p>\n<p>Walking in the other direction from where the guy got dead yesterday, this morning I came across a felled pedestrian.  Hit by a silver pick up truck at a corner where I cross frequently; a intersection where drivers pay so little attention to pedestrians, they wouldn&#8217;t notice God Himself if He was salsa dancing in the street. Police were on the scene &#8211; having been in the neighbourhood anyway, I guess.  Looking for two men in black puffy coats with a gun.  <\/p>\n<p>Time to move out of barely &#8216;burbia and back to dangerous downtown where the worst thing that ever happened to me was a very bad cover band?  Hem.  Mayhap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the man that was shot two blocks from my house yesterday was targeted. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to assure the public that this incident did not involve the general public, that we suspect that this victim was targeted and it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}