{"id":10170,"date":"2014-04-05T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10170"},"modified":"2014-04-05T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T13:23:24","slug":"the-detroit-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10170","title":{"rendered":"The Detroit reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.clickondetroit.com\/news\/detroit-police-continue-search-for-suspects-in-mob-beating-of-motorist\/25323264\">News Story<\/A><\/p>\n<p>Mike Duggan, the first White mayor on Detroit in the 21st Century has his work cut out.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the beating of a white man by a black mob as told by this and similar accounts misses the context or is afraid to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>A big part of why Detroit died was insurance extortion.   This event was a textbook example.   You spot a white motorist driving at a slow speed and send your child to &#8220;flop&#8221; in front of the car (or slam on your brakes for no reason) <\/p>\n<p>Should the insurance company be stupid enough to go to court to try to prove that the person deliberately ran in front of the car or the injuries are not real, the welfare jury, seeing the white defendant and &#8220;rich&#8221; insurance companies would hand over multi million dollar settlements.   Add in bank robberies, corrupt city officials and rampant shoplifting and you were pretty stupid to have a business south of Eight Mile.<\/p>\n<p>Why the mob turned on the guy and tried to kill him isn&#8217;t obvious.  Looking at the picture of his family, he isn&#8217;t exactly a TEA party guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Story Mike Duggan, the first White mayor on Detroit in the 21st Century has his work cut out. The story of the beating of a white man by a black mob as told by this and similar accounts misses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}