{"id":176650,"date":"2020-04-25T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/25\/small-acts-of-heroism\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:10:00","slug":"small-acts-of-heroism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/25\/small-acts-of-heroism\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Acts of Heroism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WYK58kq.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WYK58kq.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>The Wages of Evil are Pretty Good<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Some publicly minded hero just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/local\/2018\/07\/25\/DeVos-40-million-yacht-vandalized-at-Huron-dock-npr.html\">removed the moorings from Betsy DeVos&#8217; $40 million yacht<\/a> in an act of well-justified retribution for the evil that she is doing.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t a whole bunch of damage, only $5-10,000.00, but I wholeheartedly approve:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A boat owned by the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was vandalized over the weekend while moored at a Huron dock, according to the Huron Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>The Seaquest was moored at the Huron Boat Basin, 330 Main St., according to a police report. The captain of the 163-foot yacht, worth a reported $40 million, called police at about 6 a.m. Sunday, telling them that he and the crew realized at sunrise that someone had untied Seaquest from the dock, setting it adrift. <\/p>\n<p>The crew eventually got control of the yacht, but not before it struck the dock, causing an estimated $5,000 to $10,000 in damage from large scratches and scrapes, according to the police report.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally, I am opposed to acts of vandalism as political protest, but normally vandalism as an act of protest tends to hit innocent bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>This didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wages of Evil are Pretty Good Some publicly minded hero just removed the moorings from Betsy DeVos&#8217; $40 million yacht in an act of well-justified retribution for the evil that she is doing. There wasn&#8217;t a whole bunch of damage, only $5-10,000.00, but I wholeheartedly approve: A boat owned by the family of U.S. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[397,374,590,584],"class_list":["post-176650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-education","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}