{"id":199156,"date":"2007-08-30T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/osama-has-already-defeated-us\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T04:05:00","slug":"osama-has-already-defeated-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/osama-has-already-defeated-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Osama Has Already Defeated Us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, let me get this straight, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20441775\/\">a group of beer swilling runners are marking a trail for a run, and it gets treated as a possible terrorist attack<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>If the goal of terrorism is to create terror and panic, Osama bin Laden has already defeated us.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.<\/p>\n<p>The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.<br \/>Story continues below \u2193advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The siblings set off the scare while organizing a run for a local chapter of the Hash House Harriers, a worldwide group that bills itself as a \u201cdrinking club with a running problem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are a bunch of scared rabbits, aren&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, let me get this straight, a group of beer swilling runners are marking a trail for a run, and it gets treated as a possible terrorist attack? If the goal of terrorism is to create terror and panic, Osama bin Laden has already defeated us. Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,982,1076,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-stupid","category-terrorism","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199156"}],"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=199156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}