{"id":935,"date":"2007-08-21T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/guns-in-america\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:12:30","slug":"guns-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/guns-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about Canada, stuff like <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2007\/08\/20\/4432338-ap.html\">this<\/a> just doesn&#8217;t seem to happen all that often here.<\/p>\n<p>The police in Florida were running a &#8220;Guns for Kicks&#8221; program where anyone can exchange a gun for $50 towards a pair of running shoes.  Apparently some guy walked in with a surface-to-air missile launcher (!) and exchanged it for $50 towards shoes for his daughter.  The &#8220;no questions asked&#8221; policy was definitely being pushed to the limit, I would say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about Canada, stuff like this just doesn&#8217;t seem to happen all that often here. The police in Florida were running a &#8220;Guns for Kicks&#8221; program where anyone can exchange a gun for $50 towards a pair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/guns-in-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-f5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}