{"id":293,"date":"2005-02-28T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T02:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=293"},"modified":"2005-02-28T21:17:37","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T02:17:37","slug":"the-big-mac-that-spwaned-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"The Big Mac that spawned terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get this story, really.  Somehow, two men (who the news outlet decided should be made clear, are of middle eastern descent) became very dissatsified with the food quality and service at a McDonald&#8217;s.  Seems they<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotten.com\/library\/crime\/corporate\/mcdonalds\/\"> serve crappy food there, and service levels are abysmal<\/a> at best due to the McJobbers who work there having minimal to no skills, earning meager wages.  Hey, who knew?<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing is that these geniuses apparently felt the way to solve this problem was to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxii12.com\/news\/4232621\/detail.html\">threaten to blow up the Pentagon<\/a>.  What the hell?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Two gentlemen made threats toward blowing up McDonald&#8217;s and also blowing up the Pentagon. By the time officials arrived, the men had already fled the scene. We immediately contacted the FBI, who is conducting the investigation at this point,&#8221; Wharton Police Department Capt. Richard Coleman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotten.com\/library\/bio\/business\/ronald-mcdonald\/\">Ronald<\/a> is a secret agent or something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgruntled McDonald&#8217;s customers trheaten to blow up the Pentagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}