{"id":208,"date":"2005-03-21T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/boston\/police_blotter.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"police_blotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2005\/03\/21\/police_blotter","title":{"rendered":"Police Blotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalhub.com\">Universal Hub<\/a> (and inaugurating a new blog category, &#8220;Boston&#8221;): the <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonhistory.typepad.com\">City Record and Boston News-Letter<\/a> (motto: &#8220;Observe and Preserve&#8221;) has been posting items from the Boston police blotter, <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonhistory.typepad.com\/notes_on_the_urban_condit\/2005\/03\/events_and_fire_3.html\">e.g.<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A well dressed man called at No. 721 Washington Street, walked up stairs, pocketed a silver watch, and while walking off encountered the lady of the house, of whom he very politely enquired if Mr. Atkins lived there; on receiving a negative answer, he took up his line of march and has not been heard of since! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Note that these items are from the early 1800&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p> This is also an appropriate time to note what seems to me to be an uptick in geocentric blogging (or perhaps someone can suggest a better adjective). The Internet facilitates global communication, but can also build local community. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalhub.com\">Universal Hub<\/a> is a selective (edited) aggregator of Boston-area blogs&#8212;I expect this kind of thing will be common in cities around the world if it isn&#8217;t already. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Universal Hub (and inaugurating a new blog category, &#8220;Boston&#8221;): the City Record and Boston News-Letter (motto: &#8220;Observe and Preserve&#8221;) has been posting items from the Boston police blotter, e.g.: A well dressed man called at No. 721 Washington Street, walked up stairs, pocketed a silver watch, and while walking off encountered the lady of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}