{"id":3400,"date":"2006-10-31T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:22:04","slug":"st-louis-not-really-most-violent-city-says-mayor-slay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/31\/st-louis-not-really-most-violent-city-says-mayor-slay\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Not Really Most Violent City, Says Mayor SLAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/metroeast\/story\/323269962668F98086257217000A9A74?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Slay disputes St. Louis ranking as most dangerous city<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor Francis Slay makes no bones about it: Morgan Quitno Press is dead wrong to call St. Louis the most dangerous city in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s bogus,&#8221; Slay said of the group&#8217;s annual ranking released Monday. &#8220;To suggest that St. Louis is more dangerous than Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Chicago &#8212; it just doesn&#8217;t make any sense.  <b>I will beat anyone who says that to my face within inches of his life, and then I will take his wallet to help fund some sports venue or another<\/b>.&#8221; [Emphasis, actual words added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police Chief Joseph Makewar concurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slay disputes St. Louis ranking as most dangerous city: Mayor Francis Slay makes no bones about it: Morgan Quitno Press is dead wrong to call St. Louis the most dangerous city in the United States. &#8220;It&#8217;s bogus,&#8221; Slay said of the group&#8217;s annual ranking released Monday. &#8220;To suggest that St. Louis is more dangerous than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","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=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18481,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions\/18481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}