{"id":1023,"date":"2005-09-18T17:03:02","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/09\/18\/any-friend-of-my-friend\/"},"modified":"2005-09-18T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T22:03:02","slug":"any-friend-of-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/any-friend-of-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Any friend of my friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/nraboard2.phtml\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/nraboard2-thumb.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"NRA vs. ConocoPhillips\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>A new morning routine has started taking me past the pictured billboard out on FM 969 east of 183. I&#8217;ve been wondering what the hell it was about for the past couple of weeks and finally decided to take a picture and look it up. You can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/03\/national\/03guns.html?ei=5070&amp;en=469ed154597ac6f0&amp;ex=1127188800&amp;pagewanted=print\">most of the story from the NY Times<\/a> (usual newspaper registration disclaimer, bugmenot, blah). I&#8217;m not going to get into the politics, but I find it interesting that they&#8217;re singling out ConocoPhillips and not Halliburton since Halliburton is also involved in the same suit that&#8217;s got the NRA printing up these billboards. I also find it interesting that the billboard is so far out of town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new morning routine has started taking me past the pictured billboard out on FM 969 east of 183. I&#8217;ve been wondering what the hell it was about for the past couple of weeks and finally decided to take a picture and look it up. You can get most of the story from the NY <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/any-friend-of-my-friend\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-gv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}