{"id":1789,"date":"2015-09-01T20:52:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2015-09-01T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:52:04","slug":"morbid-sightseeing-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Sightseeing Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was dating the girl in DC earlier this year, I made a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimemuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Museum of Crime and Punishment<\/a>. \u00a0Was it a rip-off at $21.95 compared to the great low cost (free!) of the Smithsonian museums? \u00a0Certainly it was. \u00a0But were there interesting things on display here? \u00a0Yes, there certainly are, including Gacy&#8217;s Pogo the Clown outfit. \u00a0So then isn&#8217;t it worth it? \u00a0Well, kind of, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>But the point is: It&#8217;s closing at the end of the month! \u00a0So, get out there now or wonder if it will ever open anywhere else for the rest of your life!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll hurry up and put out my travelogue this week (if work allows) so that you can see what you&#8217;re missing if you choose not to make a trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/local\/wp\/2015\/08\/31\/crime-museum-is-closing-at-the-end-of-september\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Museum Is Closing At The End of September<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <strong>Ear <\/strong>for the heads up!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was dating the girl in DC earlier this year, I made a trip to the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. \u00a0Was it a rip-off at $21.95 compared to the great low cost (free!) of the Smithsonian museums? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1789\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[57,58,89,91],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-of-columbia","tag-crime","tag-execution","tag-murder","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}