{"id":3249,"date":"2006-07-31T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2016-12-07T19:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T01:47:31","slug":"when-geeks-get-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/when-geeks-get-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"When Geeks Get Violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/metroeast\/story\/5521D3AA98333D63862571BC0020D02D?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Trivia events turn deadly in tough competition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In St. Louis County&#8217;s VFW Halls and school cafeterias, a mistranslated Latinate, a misremembered movie quote, and even a sports record misstated by two at-bats have been motives for murder.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen homicides struck neighborhood Trivia Night fundraisers over an 18-month period starting in 2001.  The seemingly trivial reasons behind the killings led a prosecutor to label it &#8220;Ground Zero for Senseless Murder.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, sorry, I misread the headline.  It&#8217;s &#8220;Trivial events turn deadly in tough neighborhood,&#8221; which is much less amusing than where my mind went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trivia events turn deadly in tough competition: In St. Louis County&#8217;s VFW Halls and school cafeterias, a mistranslated Latinate, a misremembered movie quote, and even a sports record misstated by two at-bats have been motives for murder. Fourteen homicides struck neighborhood Trivia Night fundraisers over an 18-month period starting in 2001. The seemingly trivial reasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","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=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16040,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/16040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}