{"id":13505,"date":"2014-05-20T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13505"},"modified":"2014-05-20T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:02:28","slug":"they-laugh-at-me-for-having-a-halberd-in-my-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/they-laugh-at-me-for-having-a-halberd-in-my-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"They Laugh At Me For Having A Halberd In My Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But sometimes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/local\/Womans-car-attacked-by-self-identified-high-elf-battling-evil-259598811.html\" target=\"_blank\">wandering monster appears on your way to work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last thing the woman from Northeast Portland probably expected when she got up Tuesday morning was that she would be attacked by a sword-wielding elf.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s what happened around 7 a.m. as she drove her red BMW by the intersection of Southeast 7th and Morrison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know, you purists are saying the halberd is not the right weapon for in-vehicle defense, but it&#8217;s a <em>carbine<\/em> halberd.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2014\/05\/19\/news-you-can-use-137\/\" target=\"_blank\">VodkaPundit<\/a>, who did not add his customary, &#8220;You know you&#8217;re not supposed to do that, right?&#8221;  Mainly because whether to attack commuters with bladed weapons is a case-by-case basis.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But sometimes a wandering monster appears on your way to work: The last thing the woman from Northeast Portland probably expected when she got up Tuesday morning was that she would be attacked by a sword-wielding elf. But that&#8217;s what happened around 7 a.m. as she drove her red BMW by the intersection of Southeast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505","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=13505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13506,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions\/13506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}