{"id":1184,"date":"2006-06-19T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T08:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/lets_call_the_calling_off_off.html"},"modified":"2006-06-19T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T08:05:06","slug":"lets_call_the_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/lets_call_the_c.html","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Call The Calling Off Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stabbing&#8221; just sounds so . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/locked_up_ripper_suspect__i_just_whacked_them_regionalnews_georgett_roberts_____and_lukas_i__alpert.htm\">harsh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Alleged serial stabber Kenny Alexis said yesterday that he doesn&#8217;t like the word &#8220;stabbing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t call it that. I call it whacking. I whacked someone, but only in self-defense,&#8221; he said in a barely coherent interview at the Bellevue Hospital prison ward.<\/p>\n<p>It was the only point during the hourlong conversation when Alexis, 20, who is charged with knifing four people in wild, 13-hour rampage throughout Manhattan, addressed why he was there.<\/p>\n<p>Asked repeatedly if he was responsible for any of the attacks, Alexis responded, &#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t know. They say anything they want.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stabbing&#8221; just sounds so . . . harsh: Alleged serial stabber Kenny Alexis said yesterday that he doesn&#8217;t like the word &#8220;stabbing.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t call it that. I call it whacking. I whacked someone, but only in self-defense,&#8221; he said in a barely coherent interview at the Bellevue Hospital prison ward. It was the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}