{"id":6438,"date":"2004-09-02T06:46:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/02\/almost-certainly-misquoted.html"},"modified":"2004-09-02T06:46:57","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T13:46:57","slug":"almost_certainl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/almost_certainl.html","title":{"rendered":"Almost certainly misquoted"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Neil Gaiman<\/a> points out, this news story almost certainly misquotes the perp<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A 6-foot-tall, 275-pound bearded man crashed a children’s birthday party in Oak Forest, identified himself as “vengeance,” then helped himself to a piece of cake, police said.
\n[…] When the owner of the home asked the man who he was, the intruder replied, “I am vengeance. I am the knight. I am Batman.” Then the man went into the kitchen, cut a piece of birthday cake, took it into the living room and ate it.<\/p>\n

I would be willing to bet a not-inconsiderable amount of money that the gent said, “I am the night<\/em>,” not “I am the knight<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

How can we expect our criminal justice system to function properly when obvious homages to the growled utterences of a masked vigilante can’t even be transcribed correctly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Neil Gaiman points out, this news story almost certainly misquotes the perp: A 6-foot-tall, 275-pound bearded man crashed a children’s birthday party in Oak Forest, identified himself as “vengeance,”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134037,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/a-quotable-mini-interview-with-neil-gaiman.html","url_meta":{"origin":6438,"position":0},"title":"A quotable mini-interview with Neil Gaiman","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Aug-17 12:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not sure if this is excerpts from an interview, or an article by way of bullet points, but some of these will definitely end up on my quotations site (http:\/\/wist.info). 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