{"id":1184,"date":"2013-04-16T07:40:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2013-04-16T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:59:37","slug":"tuesday-16-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/04\/16\/tuesday-16-april-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 16 April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">07:40 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> There doesn&#8217;t appear to be a lot of hard information available yet about the Boston Marathon bombings. After watching video of the event, my first impression is that this is very unlikely to be state-sponsored terrorism. Although so far no group has claimed responsibility, I think it&#8217;s more likely to be domestic terrorists like a lunatic-fringe anti-abortion group or white separatists. From the appearance of the explosions, the bombs appear to have been small and crude, perhaps something as simple as a kilo or two of black powder surrounded by ball bearings. The brilliant white flash one expects from a detonation of high explosives was missing, and there was far too much smoke. If I&#8217;m right, these devices could have been built by almost anyone, using materials they could have purchased at a Home Depot.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">07:59 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;m surprised that we haven&#8217;t yet heard any demands for new bomb-control legislation.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07:40 &#8211; There doesn&#8217;t appear to be a lot of hard information available yet about the Boston Marathon bombings. After watching video of the event, my first impression is that this is very unlikely to be state-sponsored terrorism. Although so far no group has claimed responsibility, I think it&#8217;s more likely to be domestic terrorists like a lunatic-fringe anti-abortion group or white separatists. From the appearance of the explosions, the bombs appear to have been small and crude,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/04\/16\/tuesday-16-april-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 16 April 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}