{"id":309,"date":"2005-04-25T02:28:55","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T02:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2005-04-25T02:28:55","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T02:28:55","slug":"is-syracuse-neverland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/2005\/is-syracuse-neverland\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Syracuse Neverland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read a quite funny article by Jeff Kramer, who writes a weekly humor column in the <i>Post-Standard<\/i>. This week he compared Syracuse to Michael Jackson&#8217;s Neverland Ranch, and managed to find over a dozen similarities.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/living\/poststandard\/index.ssf?\/base\/living-0\/1114245346115260.xml&#038;coll=1&#038;thispage=1\" target=\"_blank\">Is Syracuse just another Neverland?<\/a><br \/>\nThis past week Syracuse Police began teaming up with the Onondaga County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and the New York State Police to crack down on crime in Syracuse&#8217;s worst neighborhoods, which has gotten horribly ridiculous.<br \/>\nHardly a day passes without reading or hearing about shootings. Today I got to read about five people being injured Saturday in two separate shootings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Three teens were shot just after 2:30 p.m. when a shooter walked through a convenience store parking lot, firing off shot after shot in a spray that went in several directions.&#8221; &#8211;<i>The Post-Standard<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonderful&#8230; And the closest-to-home incident in the past few months was last month&#8217;s discovery of a body in the park at the end of my block.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news10now.com\/story.asp?ArID=38258\" target=\"_blank\">Body found in Thornden Park<\/a><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/Thornden_Park.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/Thornden_Park.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/Thornden_Park-thumb.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Thornden Park<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read a quite funny article by Jeff Kramer, who writes a weekly humor column in the Post-Standard. This week he compared Syracuse to Michael Jackson&#8217;s Neverland Ranch, and managed to find over a dozen similarities. Is Syracuse just another Neverland? This past week Syracuse Police began teaming up with the Onondaga County Sheriff&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}