{"id":880,"date":"2003-11-25T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/880.html"},"modified":"2003-11-25T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T15:32:24","slug":"when-bad-things-happen-to-bad-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/when-bad-things-happen-to-bad-people\/","title":{"rendered":"When bad things happen to bad people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll forgive me for my schadenfreude-induced smile, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/South\/11\/24\/klan.initiation.ap\/index.html\">this non-political story<\/a> was too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>The KKK was holding an initiation ceremony recently in Johnson City, Tenn., when a participant, 45-year-old Gregory Allen Freeman, fired his pistol towards the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Well, what goes up must come down, and the next thing you know the guy who&#8217;s being initiated, 24-year-old Jeffery Murr, gets hit by the very bullet fired from Freeman&#8217;s gun. In fact, Murr was critically injured as the bullet traveled through his skull.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman, meanwhile, has been charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment (two children were on hand for the KKK ceremony).<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t make this stuff up if I tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll forgive me for my schadenfreude-induced smile, but this non-political story was too good to pass up. The KKK was holding an initiation ceremony recently in Johnson City, Tenn., when a participant, 45-year-old Gregory Allen Freeman, fired his pistol towards the sky. Well, what goes up must come down, and the next thing you know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}