{"id":1114,"date":"2004-07-03T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:03:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:03:05","slug":"1114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/03\/1114\/","title":{"rendered":"He Chose Poorly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/St.+Louis+City+%2F+County\/82AAD820816DE1A186256EC60015F053?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=After+wild+foot+chase,+officer+nabs+her+mugger\" target=\"_new\">a story<\/a> in today&#8217;s <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A robber probably figured he found an easy target when he saw a blonde in spaghetti straps walking alone in a Westport Plaza parking lot early Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But he picked the wrong woman.<\/p>\n<p>The purse he snatched was tucked under the arm of an off-duty St. Louis County police officer who wouldn&#8217;t let it go without a fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"_new\">Fark<\/a> would say, jailarity ensues.  Unfortunately, Fark has yet to coin the term broken-kneecaparity ensues.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"red\">UPDATE:<\/font><\/b> From the &#8220;I Wish I Would Have Said That&#8221; Department, we offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewillblog.com\/2004_07_01_freewillblog_archive.html#108889895922577915\" target=\"_new\">Aaron of Free Will Blog&#8217;s take<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least the Post-Dispatch didn&#8217;t run it with the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewillblog.com\/2004_05_01_freewillblog_archive.html#108408336351146220\">&#8220;Jobless Man&#8217;s Kneecap Broken After Woman Is Mugged&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a story in today&#8217;s St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A robber probably figured he found an easy target when he saw a blonde in spaghetti straps walking alone in a Westport Plaza parking lot early Thursday. But he picked the wrong woman. The purse he snatched was tucked under the arm of an off-duty St. Louis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23118,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/23118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}