{"id":45824,"date":"2012-08-20T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45824"},"modified":"2012-08-20T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T02:56:09","slug":"a-dangerous-part-of-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45824","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Part Of Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten days before the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/picorob.com\/2012\/07\/23\/man-stabbed-to-death-at-corner-of-robertson-blvd18th-street\/\">fatal stabbing on Robertson and 18th<\/a>, I sat in a home nearby and wrote:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in a dangerous part of town. Goy town. Rabid dogs all around off their leash. Why should their owners give a damn if I&#8217;m frightened? Life is cheap below 18th Street.<\/p>\n<p>The walk home is 1.1 miles. What will I encounter? Wild beasts. Snapping jaws. Lunging hatred. Timid beautiful white boy is easy prey. Do the same rules apply south of Cadillac? What is life like here? I&#8217;m next to a school. That&#8217;s a good sign. I&#8217;m going to run home. I&#8217;ll get to Robertson Blvd as fast as possible and once I&#8217;m beside the traffic and the lights, I&#8217;ll be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten days before the fatal stabbing on Robertson and 18th, I sat in a home nearby and wrote: I&#8217;m in a dangerous part of town. Goy town. Rabid dogs all around off their leash. Why should their owners give a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45824\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-picorobertson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45825,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45824\/revisions\/45825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}