{"id":980,"date":"2004-05-28T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T21:36:00","slug":"980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/28\/980\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise good, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespoonsexperience.com\/archives\/002314.php#002314\" target=\"new\">Spoons-approved<\/a> column for the <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i>, Steve Chapman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-0405270288may27,1,5892435.column?coll=chi-news-col\" target=\"new\">identifies the slippery slope<\/a> that gun banners are encouraging with the Assault Weapons Ban.  Unfortunately, he deploys a stink bomb of clich (pronounced, yes, clitch):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The guns used by the Red Army and assorted guerrillas around the world are indeed automatic weapons, firing up to 100 rounds a minute with a single squeeze of the trigger. But the <b>so-called<\/b> AK-47s allowed before the ban were semiautomatics, which fire only once each time the trigger is pulled. They are to authentic military weapons what a beer-league softball player is to Barry Bonds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yick.  Poor form, Peter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise good, Spoons-approved column for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman identifies the slippery slope that gun banners are encouraging with the Assault Weapons Ban. Unfortunately, he deploys a stink bomb of clich (pronounced, yes, clitch): The guns used by the Red Army and assorted guerrillas around the world are indeed automatic weapons, firing [&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-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23277,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/23277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}