{"id":1549,"date":"2003-08-01T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2003-08-02T02:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/01\/ten-blocks-downhill\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:35:06","slug":"ten-blocks-downhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/01\/ten-blocks-downhill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten blocks downhill&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13906,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.zeldman.com\\\/daily\\\/0703b.shtml#battle&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260223071646\\\/https:\\\/\\\/zeldman.com\\\/daily\\\/0703b.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:07:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:07:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13907,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattle.citysearch.com\\\/profile\\\/10767478\\\/?cslink=cs_srch_spons_ll_name&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040820095747\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattle.citysearch.com:80\\\/profile\\\/10767478\\\/?cslink=cs_srch_spons_ll_name&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:07:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:59:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:59:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7855,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.seafair.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6417,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.vogueseattle.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/daily\/0703b.shtml#battle\" title=\"Seattle battle\">Jeffrey Zeldman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Gunfire marked our first night in Seattle. Street warfare broke out when rival gangs spotted each other following an annual torchlight parade. Three teenagers were shot and a fourth was stabbed before police could penetrate the thick, panicky crowds to prevent further mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>  We were returning from a quiet dinner at Maximillien Bistro in the Market when citizens began running into us. Three shots rang out half a block away.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Those were gun shots,&#8221; said a white man in a black ten gallon hat.<\/p>\n<p>  We made it to our hotel and heard the remaining shots and sirens through our window. National news services ignored the short-lived riot. The remainder of our trip was comparatively sedate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes. The <a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.citysearch.com\/profile\/10767478\/?cslink=cs_srch_spons_ll_name\" title=\"Maximilien in the Market\">restaurant he refrences<\/a> is roughly ten blocks away from my apartment. This would have happened last Saturday night, probably in connection with all the various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seafair.com\/\" title=\"SeaFair\">SeaFair<\/a> stuff going on. What fun. And this is the first I&#8217;ve heard of it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I probably was up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogueseattle.com\/\" title=\"The Vogue\">Vogue<\/a> when everything happened, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunfire marked our first night in Seattle. Street warfare broke out when rival gangs spotted each other following an annual torchlight parade. Three teenagers were shot and a fourth was stabbed before police could penetrate the thick, panicky crowds to prevent further mayhem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}