{"id":1146,"date":"2009-12-19T21:58:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T03:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2009-12-19T21:58:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T03:58:48","slug":"snomg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/snomg\/","title":{"rendered":"snOMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, when I asked if DC could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/?p=1108\">have as much fun<\/a> in the snow as they did in Madison a few weeks ago, this isn&#8217;t exactly what I had in mind:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/citydesk\/2009\/12\/19\/did-d-c-cops-overreact-to-snowball-fight-14th-and-u\/\">City Paper<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2009\/12\/police_officer_brandishes_gun_at_sn.php\">DCist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t bring a gun to a snowball fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to an eyewitness, a <strong>D.C. Police<\/strong> detective (pictured above w\/ gun) went nuts after kids pelted his Hummer with snowballs at 14th and U Streets NW this afternoon. The veteran detective got out of his car and eventually grabbed for his gun, displaying it to the crowd. He did not immediately identify himself as a police officer. He calmed down once his fellow uniformed cop arrived. Apparently, someone called 911 to report a man with gun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, yeah &#8211; that kinda harshes the mellow a bit.<\/p>\n<p>But, in more fun news, Tommy Wells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/citydesk\/2009\/12\/19\/tommy-wells-on-the-blizzard-of-2009\/\">has the right idea<\/a> &#8211; as <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Mike DeBonis<\/span> Sven Frostington shows:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/157dN-vhRR4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Layers, indeed.\u00a0 Dress like an onion, Tommy.\u00a0 Also, nice hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, when I asked if DC could have as much fun in the snow as they did in Madison a few weeks ago, this isn&#8217;t exactly what I had in mind: City Paper &#8211; DCist You don&#8217;t bring a gun to a snowball fight. According to an eyewitness, a D.C. Police detective (pictured above w\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[92,99],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-snow","tag-snowpocalypse-09"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sHcGQ-snomg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}