{"id":78,"date":"2010-12-05T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/?p=78"},"modified":"2010-12-05T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T16:07:42","slug":"what-the-motor-city-madman-hath-wrought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2010\/12\/05\/what-the-motor-city-madman-hath-wrought\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Motor City Madman Hath Wrought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Daryl Dixon character in AMC&#039;s <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> showed in an episode that originally aired November 14, crossbows can be highly effective for killing zombies, in part because of the weapon&#039;s pinpoint accuracy but more importantly, because of its quiet nature.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that it&#039;s just a coincidence that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/toronto\/story\/2010\/12\/03\/toornto-crossbow-homicide.html\">a man killed his father with a crossbow last Thursday in Toronto, Canada<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It&#039;s believed to be the first time a crossbow has been used in a homicide in Toronto.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#039;ve gotten sucked into watching <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> &#8212; Jen first, then me. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_The_Walking_Dead_episodes\">More and more people seem to be watching it<\/a>, which is good for the show. I am getting a little tired of the constant pullout quotes they highlight during the on-demand interstitials &#8212; it&#039;s about humanity, I get it already! And it&#039;s appointment television, I know, but we&#039;re still a week behind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Daryl Dixon character in AMC&#039;s The Walking Dead showed in an episode that originally aired November 14, crossbows can be highly effective for killing zombies, in part because of the weapon&#039;s pinpoint accuracy but more importantly, because of its quiet nature. I hope that it&#039;s just a coincidence that a man killed his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[219,218,217],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fw-link","tag-amcs-the-walking-dead","tag-crossbows","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}