{"id":573,"date":"2004-02-03T13:14:59","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T18:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/ricin_in_the_news\/"},"modified":"2004-02-03T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T18:14:59","slug":"ricin_in_the_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/ricin_in_the_news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricin in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Senate office buildings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/02\/03\/senate.hazardous\/index.html\">are closed today<\/a> after authorities discovered deadly ricin in a senate mail room.<br \/>\nJosh Marshall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_02_01.html#002521\">alerts us<\/a> of <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/10\/23\/national\/main579600.shtml\">this under-reported story<\/a> from early January:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI on Thursday offered a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to an arrest of anyone responsible for leaving a package containing the deadly poison ricin at a post office in October.<br \/>\nA letter inside the package said the author could make much more ricin and will &#8220;start dumping&#8221; large quantities of the poison if new federal trucking rules went in effect, according to information released by the FBI and other federal agencies Thursday.<br \/>\nThe rules, which require more rest hours for truck drivers, took effect Sunday.<br \/>\nThe letter, signed &#8220;Fallen Angel,&#8221; said the author was &#8220;a fleet owner of a tanker company.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Coincidence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/ricin_in_the_news\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Ricin in the News\"><p>Three Senate office buildings are closed today after authorities discovered deadly ricin in a senate mail room. Josh Marshall alerts us of this under-reported story from early January: The FBI on Thursday offered a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to an arrest of anyone responsible for leaving a package containing the deadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}