{"id":38,"date":"2007-08-22T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T16:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2007\/08\/22\/out-of-the-frying-pan\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T17:37:18","slug":"out-of-the-frying-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/out-of-the-frying-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Of The Frying Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Cincinnati <a href=\"http:\/\/news.enquirer.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/AB\/20070815\/NEWS01\/308150041\/\" target=\"_blank\">won&#8217;t fire off a starter pistol<\/a> to signal the beginning of an upcoming road race, because he doesn&#8217;t like the symbolism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the symbolism is just bad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just something I don&#8217;t do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mayor says he&#8217;s going to blow a whistle instead.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the city had 87 homicides, and this is his solution.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic, isn&#8217;t it?  Starter pistols don&#8217;t kill people, people with starter pistols. . . no, that doesn&#8217;t work either.  You can&#8217;t kill someone with a starter pistol unless you beat them to death with it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the race&#8217;s organizers said &#8220;We&#8217;re just happy to have the mayor I don&#8217;t care if he wants to bang pots and pans together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What?  Doesn&#8217;t she realize a cast iron frying pan makes a great homicide weapon?  I&#8217;ll bet at least a few of those 87 homicides were done with kitchen utensils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Cincinnati won&#8217;t fire off a starter pistol to signal the beginning of an upcoming road race, because he doesn&#8217;t like the symbolism. &#8220;I think the symbolism is just bad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just something I don&#8217;t do.&#8221; The mayor says he&#8217;s going to blow a whistle instead. Last year the city had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}