{"id":179848,"date":"2017-10-07T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/07\/there-is-a-thin-line-between-terrorism-and-pumpkin-spice-air-freshener\/"},"modified":"2017-10-07T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T22:27:00","slug":"there-is-a-thin-line-between-terrorism-and-pumpkin-spice-air-freshener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/07\/there-is-a-thin-line-between-terrorism-and-pumpkin-spice-air-freshener\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a Thin Line Between Terrorism and Pumpkin Spice Air Freshener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just ask the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/bs-md-ci-pumpkin-spice-evacuation-20171005-story.html\">Baltimore City fire department and its hazmat teams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">There was an unusual smell Thursday afternoon at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Upper Fells Point. The smell was on the third floor. Students and teachers didn\u2019t know what it was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a smell that they certainly weren\u2019t used to,\u201d said Bill Heiser, the school\u2019s president, who was off-campus at the time. \u201cIt appeared to be getting stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several students and teachers reported difficulty breathing, Heiser said.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s principal evacuated the building and the fire department was called. After arriving, the fire department requested a Hazmat team, which ran several tests for hazardous materials. All of them were negative, according to Baltimore fire spokesman Roman Clark.<\/p>\n<p> \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters began to open all the windows in the building to air it out.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Clark said, they located the source of the smell in a third-floor classroom: an aerosol plugin. Flavor: pumpkin spice. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>F%$#ing pumpkin spice strikes again.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s not just polluting our Starbucks, it&#8217;s interfering with the education of our kids.<\/p>\n<p>It must be stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just ask the Baltimore City fire department and its hazmat teams: There was an unusual smell Thursday afternoon at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Upper Fells Point. The smell was on the third floor. Students and teachers didn\u2019t know what it was. \u201cIt was a smell that they certainly weren\u2019t used to,\u201d said Bill &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":[482,397,466,390,421],"class_list":["post-179848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-education","tag-maryland","tag-snark","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179848"}],"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=179848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}