{"id":15568,"date":"2016-08-11T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15568"},"modified":"2016-08-11T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:01:21","slug":"unclear-on-the-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/11\/unclear-on-the-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclear on the Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sign instructs actually instructs you to <em>increase<\/em> &#8220;Smash and Grab&#8221; crime:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/smashandgrab.jpg\"<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no smash in the smash and grab if the vehicle is not locked.  There&#8217;s only grab crime.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of South City (St. Louis, that is) offered this advice: Don&#8217;t leave anything in your car and don&#8217;t lock your car.  Otherwise, the baddies will smash the windows to get in.  Whether they steal anything or not, you&#8217;ll be on the hook for a new window.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the trade-off is this: Locking the car will stop a casual thief, but a determined thief will have to break the window to steal.<\/p>\n<p>(History proves that I have <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/09\/city-of-st-louis-says-good-luck-youre-on-your-own\/\" target=\"_blank\">never liked cities spending law enforcement budget on these things<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sign instructs actually instructs you to increase &#8220;Smash and Grab&#8221; crime:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","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=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15571,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions\/15571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}