{"id":687,"date":"2004-02-26T06:38:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/another_victim\/"},"modified":"2004-02-26T06:38:04","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T11:38:04","slug":"another_victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/another_victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=536&#038;e=4&#038;u=\/ap\/20040225\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/white_house_fence_jumper\">This<\/a> is one reason why they have the Secret Service:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man yelling &#8220;I&#8217;m a victim of terrorism&#8221; jumped a White House fence and ran across the North Lawn on Wednesday before being caught by Secret Service officers.<br \/>\nThe man scaled a fence along Pennsylvania Avenue and ran about halfway across the North Lawn before he was surrounded by uniformed Secret Service officers and led away in handcuffs.<br \/>\n&#8220;He is in custody,&#8221; said Charles Bopp, a spokesman for the Secret Service. &#8220;He was unarmed at the time. We are conducting an investigation.&#8221;<br \/>\nA photographer for The Associated Press, who witnessed the incident shortly after 5 p.m. EST, said the man was shouting, &#8220;I&#8217;m a victim of terrorism and I need the president&#8217;s help.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not too much detail there.  If I was interviewing him, I&#8217;d like to find out what he meant.  Was he saying he was a victim of terrorists?  Or might he be a victim of the government&#8217;s response to the terrorists?  The fence jumper might have been a suppliant bringing a legitimate grievance about the PATRIOT Act to the president.  Probably best to call and make an appointment, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/another_victim\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Another Victim\"><p>This is one reason why they have the Secret Service: A man yelling &#8220;I&#8217;m a victim of terrorism&#8221; jumped a White House fence and ran across the North Lawn on Wednesday before being caught by Secret Service officers. The man scaled a fence along Pennsylvania Avenue and ran about halfway across the North Lawn before [&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":{"0":"post-687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}