{"id":25657,"date":"2020-02-10T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25657"},"modified":"2020-02-10T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:30:03","slug":"thats-awful-pretty-font-for-a-protection-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/10\/thats-awful-pretty-font-for-a-protection-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Awful Pretty Font For A Protection Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted on a door of a shop on Historic Main Street in St. Charles:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/confidentialforowner.jpg\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/confidentialforowner.jpg\"><br \/><font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/font><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>An envelope taped to the shop door that says <em>Confidential for Owner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot imagine what the envelope might contain.  A note about the sale of the building with information about the new owner for the lessee?  Information about the local protection racket and rates?  A thank you card for a great gift purchased within?<\/p>\n<p>Although it would have been very, very easy to have taken it and read it, I am not the owner, and I ain&#8217;t got no truck with no MacGuffin.<\/p>\n<p>But taping something with that label to the door seems like an easy way to make sure that the confidential note does not get to the owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted on a door of a shop on Historic Main Street in St. Charles: Click for full size An envelope taped to the shop door that says Confidential for Owner. I cannot imagine what the envelope might contain. A note about the sale of the building with information about the new owner for the lessee? [&hellip;]<\/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-25657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25657","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=25657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25661,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25657\/revisions\/25661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}