{"id":787,"date":"2005-01-03T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=787"},"modified":"2005-01-03T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T17:26:08","slug":"storm-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/01\/03\/storm-troopers\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003136\"><\/a>&#8220;Every Mexican in America is an American of of a job.  FUCK BUSH!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What that graffiti was supposed to say was &#8220;out of a job&#8221;, but whoever scrawled it into that store restroom was evidentally in a hurry &#8212; and I imagine racists defacing property are paranoid about being caught anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The other day as I hurry across the street to cross the MAX train, I hear some assholes in a car shouting at a black man waiting for the train &#8220;Fucking Nigger!&#8221;, and to me &#8220;Yeah!  You better run!&#8221;  I turned back, smiled, and waved for no particular reason, before they turned to the next random person on the street.  I don&#8217;t know what their deal was, though I suspect less racism per se (there is nobody whiter than I) so much as nihilism.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/story.php?story=5864\">this<\/a> event on Portland&#8217;s socio-political horizon.  Chunk that one into the garbage category, and move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every Mexican in America is an American of of a job. FUCK BUSH!!&#8221; What that graffiti was supposed to say was &#8220;out of a job&#8221;, but whoever scrawled it into that store restroom was evidentally in a hurry &#8212; and I imagine racists defacing property are paranoid about being caught anyway. The other day as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}