{"id":1927,"date":"2009-12-15T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/15\/2009-12-15-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-pizza-edition-html\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T15:03:00","slug":"2009-12-15-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-pizza-edition-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/2009-12-15-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-pizza-edition-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaunty Dumptruck O&#8217; News: Pizza Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/Quint-machete.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/quint-machete.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"I said, hold the anchovies!\" \/><\/a><br \/>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Riverside Press-Enterprise is outsourcing more and more of its news-gathering capabilities, we turn to City News Service for this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pe.com\/news\/digest\/2009\/12\/man-accused-of-using-machete-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news bulletin<\/a> (<em>from yesterday. -ed<\/em>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;A 19-year-old reputed gang member who allegedly used a <strong>machete<\/strong> to rob a pizza deliveryman in Desert Hot Springs was free on bail today.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope they took Sparky&#8217;s big butter knife away when they let him out. We&#8217;ll pass over the middle of the story to see exactly what motivated the lad to audition for Tiger&#8217;s spot in the next Gilette commercial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Investigators believe [Machete Guy] and another young man were armed with machetes as waited in the driveway for the deliveryman. Two other alleged cohorts arrived in a vehicle during the holdup, according to [the sergeant].<br \/>[Machete Guy] is suspected of swinging a machete at the deliveryman, who was not injured, the sergeant said.<br \/>The men got away with $30 in cash and $30 worth of pizza, according to [the sergeant].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Got that? Four guys were willing to go to jail for one and a half yuppie food coupons, plus a couple mystery pizzas. That&#8217;s pretty cheap!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And they say Americans aren&#8217;t willing to take on the hard jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Now that the Riverside Press-Enterprise is outsourcing more and more of its news-gathering capabilities, we turn to City News Service for this breaking news bulletin (from yesterday. -ed): &#8220;A 19-year-old reputed gang member who allegedly used a machete to rob a pizza deliveryman in Desert Hot Springs was free on bail today. I hope &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/2009-12-15-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-pizza-edition-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jaunty Dumptruck O&#8217; News: Pizza Edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-dangerous-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}