{"id":181150,"date":"2016-09-18T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/18\/just-lovely\/"},"modified":"2016-09-18T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T23:38:00","slug":"just-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/18\/just-lovely\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Lovely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/18\/nyregion\/chelsea-explosion-new-york-city.html\">some whack job set off a bomb in Manhattan<\/a>.  Thankfully, there are no fatalities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A powerful explosion caused by what the authorities believe was a homemade bomb injured at least 29 people on a crowded sidewalk in the bustling Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday night.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A few hours later, the authorities found and removed what they described as a second explosive device four blocks away, raising the possibility that two bombs had been planted in the heart of the city.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mayor Bill de Blasio called the explosion \u2014 which occurred about 8:30 p.m. on West 23rd Street \u2014 \u201can intentional act\u201d but initially said there was no connection to terrorism and no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Police officers swarmed Chelsea\u2019s streets after the blast, which reverberated across a city scarred by terrorism and vigilant about threats, just days after the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWhatever the cause,\u201d Mr. de Blasio said, \u201cNew Yorkers will not be intimidated.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As the authorities sought to identify what had caused the explosion, they described the second device as a pressure cooker resembling the one used in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, according to a police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing investigation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word on who yet, but seeing as authorities have not yet tried to finger ISIS or al Qaeda, which makes me wonder if this might have been a Timothy McVeigh type, rather than Islamist terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like some whack job set off a bomb in Manhattan. Thankfully, there are no fatalities: A powerful explosion caused by what the authorities believe was a homemade bomb injured at least 29 people on a crowded sidewalk in the bustling Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday night.A few hours later, the authorities found &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":[918,831],"class_list":["post-181150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181150"}],"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=181150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}