{"id":7404,"date":"2013-04-03T09:14:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2013-04-03T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T00:11:27","slug":"alternative-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7404","title":{"rendered":"Alternative reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nelson City Council now requires the head of every household to own a gun and ammo to \u201cprovide for the emergency management of the city\u201d and \u201cprovide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants.\u201d The new law does have exemptions for felons and the mentally ill.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarre? Jarring? Yes, but that is the story out of <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/04\/02\/17567999-georgia-town-passes-law-requiring-citizens-to-own-guns-and-ammo?\" target=\"_blank\">Nelson, Georgia<\/a>, a community of 1300 in the southern U.S.<\/p>\n<p>This is truly a Nelson in an alternative reality.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson in our reality: gun ownership is not required.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7405\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nelson060923s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"260\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">I am indebted to my daughter, Cynthia, for pointing out this odd story.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nelson City Council now requires the head of every household to own a gun and ammo to \u201cprovide for the emergency management of the city\u201d and \u201cprovide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7408,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}