{"id":18858,"date":"2016-12-27T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18858"},"modified":"2016-12-27T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:33:04","slug":"fights-break-out-thanks-for-making-me-look-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18858","title":{"rendered":"Fights break out &#8230; thanks for making me look stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BBxBfYb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18859\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BBxBfYb-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BBxBfYb-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BBxBfYb.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spoke too soon.<\/p>\n<p>Just the other day I mentioned to my wife about how little I had heard about unruly Christmas shoppers this holiday season. I didn&#8217;t hear about near-riots &#8212; or actual riots &#8212; at shopping malls across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Then it happened.<\/p>\n<p>On the day called Boxing Day in British Commonwealth countries, Americans flocked to malls to return gifts and to do some post-Christmas shopping for their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Fights broke out. They all were apparently unconnected. The cops in Aurora, Colo., ordered a big regional mall shut down after &#8220;multiple skirmishes&#8221; occurred in the Denver suburb. The picture attached to this post is of a Memphis, Tenn., mall that was locked down also by the police after fights broke out.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer was assaulted in one of the melees that erupted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/fights-disturbances-and-chaos-breaks-out-malls-across-the-united-states\/ar-BBxB0jP?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/fights-disturbances-and-chaos-breaks-out-malls-across-the-united-states\/ar-BBxB0jP?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right there, dear reader, is where we&#8217;re seeing this so-called &#8220;war on Christmas.&#8221; You can forget all that ridiculousness about whether to wish someone &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; or &#8220;Merry Christmas.&#8221; The front line of this war is being fought in your local shopping malls by idiot shoppers who cannot control themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Malls across America need to be declared combat zones.<\/p>\n<p>If I had a helmet and a flak jacket, I&#8217;d wear &#8217;em both next time I venture to the mall.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this\u00a0ain&#8217;t the reason for the season.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke too soon. Just the other day I mentioned to my wife about how little I had heard about unruly Christmas shoppers this holiday season. I didn&#8217;t hear about near-riots &#8212; or actual riots &#8212; at shopping malls across the country. Then it happened. On the day called Boxing Day in British Commonwealth countries, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18858\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fights break out &#8230; thanks for making me look stupid<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[6800,5173],"class_list":["post-18858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","tag-boxing-day","tag-war-on-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18861,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858\/revisions\/18861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}