{"id":833,"date":"2007-04-19T13:19:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2007-04-19T13:19:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T21:19:36","slug":"you-goes-for-a-walk-you-takes-your-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"You Goes for a Walk, You Takes your Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Vancouver Sun Newspaper,<\/p>\n<p>I keep a short list in my head of images I don&#8217;t want to see on the cover of a newspaper.  This short list includes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a photo of a man pointing a gun at me.  I don&#8217;t care if he is dead.  I don&#8217;t care if he&#8217;s a devil, a hero, if it&#8217;s a toy gun or for a good cause.  I don&#8217;t want to glance at a newspaper box and be looking down the barrel of a handgun, shotgun or semi-automatic rifle.<\/p>\n<p>See?  Told you it&#8217;s a short list.<\/p>\n<p>The Province newspaper, usually the more idiot-cousin of you two, has outclassed you today with its cover, featuring a photograph of the family of one of the shooting victims.  <\/p>\n<p>You suck, you suck, you suck.<br \/>\nLove,<br \/>\nCheesefairy<\/p>\n<p>A few blocks further down I was struck by the likeness of a hedge to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbapapa.fr\/gb\/barbapapa.html\"> Barbapapa.<\/a>  I used Trombone as a cover so I wouldn&#8217;t get arrested for hedgespionage. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/barbabushes.jpg' title='it is eating their house!'><img src='http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/barbabushes.jpg' alt='barbabushes.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/arlo2.jpg' title='trombone took this picture himself'><img src='http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/arlo2.jpg' alt='arlo2.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Vancouver Sun Newspaper, I keep a short list in my head of images I don&#8217;t want to see on the cover of a newspaper. This short list includes: &#8211; a photo of a man pointing a gun at me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=833\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiots","category-media","category-outside","category-trombone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}