{"id":185886,"date":"2014-07-24T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/24\/not-the-onion-open-carry-group-protest-at-dealey-plaza\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:21:00","slug":"not-the-onion-open-carry-group-protest-at-dealey-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/24\/not-the-onion-open-carry-group-protest-at-dealey-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Onion: Open Carry Group Protest at Dealey Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"219\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UTrgVAVtaxw\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">A pink rifle, a guy complaining about the English not celebrating July 4, a preacher decrying sexual immorality, and (of course) a memorial to John F Kennedy at the spot he was shot.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p>No, I am not joking here,<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dallasobserver.com\/unfairpark\/2014\/07\/an_open_carry_group_protested_at_dealey_plaza_saturday_theres_a_youtube_video.php\">actually thought that it was a good idea to pack heat on Dealy Plaza as a way to win hearts and minds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As they&#8217;ve been doing on each third Saturday for months, advocates for the open carrying of firearms gathered &#8212; semiautomatic weapons in tow &#8212; at Dealey Plaza over the weekend. As usual the demonstrators, who call themselves Come and Take It Dallas, handed out literature and preened with their armaments of choice.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.  Really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pink rifle, a guy complaining about the English not celebrating July 4, a preacher decrying sexual immorality, and (of course) a memorial to John F Kennedy at the spot he was shot. No, I am not joking here, They actually thought that it was a good idea to pack heat on Dealy Plaza as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055,982,1027,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-laws","category-stupid","category-video","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185886"}],"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=185886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}