{"id":8023,"date":"2010-09-23T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:49:30","slug":"in-the-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/in-the-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"In The News Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/2010\/09\/20\/1444124\/chicago-man-arrested-in-bomb-plot.html\" target=\"_blank\">News story covering events<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA Chicago man has been charged with plotting to bomb a strip of crowded night spots around the time people were leaving a Dave Matthews concert at Wrigley Field over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, was arrested as he placed a backpack containing what he thought were high-explosives in a trash can in front of Sluggers, about a block south of Wrigley Field, according to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Houssoun had also discussed other violent plots in Chicago, including a biological attack on the city, poisoning Lake Michigan, attacking police officers, bombing the Willis Tower and assassinating Mayor Richard Daley, the FBI said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thoughtful analysis from the left, in this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=20108260332\" target=\"_blank\">Eugene Robinson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When did the American right become such a bunch of fraidy-cats and professional victims? Or is it all just an act?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, he was not analyzing the related story.  He was casting aspersions on the right, moored only in his preconceived notions.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, when you stick your head that far into the sand, you can actually hear the earth&#8217;s core bubbling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News story covering events: A Chicago man has been charged with plotting to bomb a strip of crowded night spots around the time people were leaving a Dave Matthews concert at Wrigley Field over the weekend. Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, was arrested as he placed a backpack containing what he thought were high-explosives in a [&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-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","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=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8025,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions\/8025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}