{"id":467,"date":"2005-09-22T05:42:30","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T10:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=467"},"modified":"2005-09-22T05:42:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T10:42:30","slug":"too-scared-to-report-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Too Scared to Report It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve seen in the past, the Boston Herald seems to be the only media outlet in town that isn&#8217;t afraid to take on people in positions of authority.<br \/>\nYesterday, there was a 25-mile traffic jam on the Massachusetts Turnpike.  It happened because of a union-inspired protest by firefighters that evidently had been implicitly supported by both the city and state police.<br \/>\nHaving blocked traffic in Newton Corner, the firefighters created a bottleneck at one of the exits off the Eastbound (Boston-bound) side of the Pike.  According to the Herald, &#8220;medical employees, ambulances and other emergency workers were being blocked from urgent duties,&#8221; and some drivers were unable to get to doctors appointments.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nNo one can explain why either the Newton police or the Staties didn&#8217;t break this up &#8211; their spokespersons aren&#8217;t talking.<br \/>\nBesides the weird, misguided inaction by public safety personnel who have been known to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2004\/10\/21\/college_student_dies_after_being_shot_by_bean_bag_bullet_near_fenway_last_night\/\" target=\"_blank\">kill innocent people <\/a>for less, what also intrigues me about this is that the Herald website is the ONLY local online source that reported this &#8211; if you look at Boston.com, TheBostonChannel and CBS4Boston.com, it&#8217;s as if nothing ever happened.<br \/>\nThen again, maybe it&#8217;s all a hoax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve seen in the past, the Boston Herald seems to be the only media outlet in town that isn&#8217;t afraid to take on people in positions of authority. Yesterday, there was a 25-mile traffic jam on the Massachusetts Turnpike. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}