{"id":191121,"date":"2009-09-23T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/23\/holy-crap-the-murders-have-begun-in-kentucky\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:10:00","slug":"holy-crap-the-murders-have-begun-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/23\/holy-crap-the-murders-have-begun-in-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Crap, the Murders Have Begun in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like one of Glenn Beck&#8217;s or Michelle Bachmann&#8217;s butt boy fans has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2009\/09\/23\/national\/w140345D22.DTL\">murder a census worker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The FBI is investigating whether anti-government sentiment led to the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word &#8216;fed&#8221; was scrawled on the dead man&#8217;s chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and teacher, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking as a former &#8220;part-time Census field worker&#8221;, I think that until the perp is found, the door to door survey should be stopped now.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t like census takers, fine.  No congressman for you.<\/p>\n<p>If there is reduced representation of the crazy parts of the country, then the governance of the country will improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like one of Glenn Beck&#8217;s or Michelle Bachmann&#8217;s butt boy fans has decided to murder a census worker: The FBI is investigating whether anti-government sentiment led to the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word &#8216;fed&#8221; was scrawled on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191121"}],"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=191121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}