{"id":20746,"date":"2017-04-02T02:36:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T02:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20746"},"modified":"2017-04-02T02:36:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T02:36:30","slug":"jp-gets-shot-and-remains-quiet-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20746","title":{"rendered":"JP gets shot &#8230; and remains quiet? Huh?"},"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>An elected public official who gets shot in the shoulder owes the public a full explanation of what the hell happened to him.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Potter County Justice of the Peace Richard Herman? What happened that night in Amarillo&#8217;s San Jacinto neighborhood?<\/p>\n<p>Herman has gone dark since he allegedly got involved in some kind of back-alley dispute involving two men who supposedly were assaulting a third individual.<\/p>\n<p>He began blabbing about the encounter on social media and then reported &#8212; again on social media &#8212; that he was self-treating a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Amarillo Police Department officials heard about it from an out-of-state caller and looked into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>What the &#8230; ?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/story\/35037719\/police-potter-county-jop-shot-expected-to-recover\">Doesn&#8217;t the public deserve to know the truth?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herman didn&#8217;t bother to file a police report. State law would seem to compel him to do so. He&#8217;s in violation of the law? Is that correct?<\/p>\n<p>How about telling the public what&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>One doesn&#8217;t normally hear about justices of the peace getting involved with neighborhood tussles.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to us, Judge Herman.<\/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>An elected public official who gets shot in the shoulder owes the public a full explanation of what the hell happened to him. Well, Potter County Justice of the Peace Richard Herman? What happened that night in Amarillo&#8217;s San Jacinto neighborhood? Herman has gone dark since he allegedly got involved in some kind of back-alley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20746\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JP gets shot &#8230; and remains quiet? Huh?<\/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":[8,9],"tags":[7041,4104],"class_list":["post-20746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-local-news","tag-potter-county-jp","tag-san-jacinto-neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20746","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=20746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20747,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20746\/revisions\/20747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}