{"id":32091,"date":"2012-09-21T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32091"},"modified":"2012-09-21T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T19:58:38","slug":"pittsburgh-hostage-taker-has-military-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32091","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh hostage taker has &#8220;military background&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/man-holds-hostage-pittsburgh-posts-facebook-160453949--finance.html\">Associated Press<\/a> reports on this hostage taking guy in Pittsburgh and they start the article with the nebulous fact that he has a &#8220;military background&#8221;. No explanation as to the background at all, just the factoid all by itself. He could have grown up by a recruiting station for all we know. <\/p>\n<p>He was also arrested for robbery a few months ago, but it&#8217;s more important to lead the story with this &#8220;military background&#8221; crap because it explains the whole thing so well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Klein Michael Thaxton] has a criminal record that includes a guilty plea to robbery earlier this year and a minimum six-month jail sentence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But let&#8217;s get the military thing out front, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Twist and Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports on this hostage taking guy in Pittsburgh and they start the article &hellip; <a title=\"Pittsburgh hostage taker has &#8220;military background&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32091\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pittsburgh hostage taker has &#8220;military background&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}