{"id":3479,"date":"2006-12-09T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:18:12","slug":"view-from-the-american-quagmire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/09\/view-from-the-american-quagmire\/","title":{"rendered":"View From The American Quagmire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/nation\/story\/E3F4BBC626F1757A8625723F004B442B?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">an insurgent opened fire<\/a> in a Chicago high rise today, killing several.  Meanwhile, in St. Louis, the crumbling infrastructure continues to pose problems as parts of the metropolitan area <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/684FDEBE6D9DAE5C8625723F001DAFF1?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">suffer from a loss of power<\/a> in the feared Midwestern winter, where temperatures drop beneath freezing.  Corruption remains a problem, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/nation\/story\/18C53A0C5213D2B18625723E001EF0C2?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">government officials continue to work with the insurgency<\/a>.  Authorities <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/T\/TERROR_ARREST?SITE=MOSTP&#038;SECTION=US\" target = \"_new\">disrupted one plot to blow up a shopping mall<\/a> but were powerless to prevent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/nation\/story\/9DF39BA1351AF6DA8625723D0016A096?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">a dramatic explosion in an industrial facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a handful of incidents from across a country, dash in some weighted words, and blend them together nicely, and I guess you can make any kind of meal you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s news, an insurgent opened fire in a Chicago high rise today, killing several. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, the crumbling infrastructure continues to pose problems as parts of the metropolitan area suffer from a loss of power in the feared Midwestern winter, where temperatures drop beneath freezing. Corruption remains a problem, as government officials [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","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=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18395,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/18395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}