{"id":388,"date":"2009-01-23T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/01\/times-is-hard.html"},"modified":"2009-01-23T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T03:25:00","slug":"times-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Times is Hard&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/file_thumbview_approve\/5824958\/2\/istockphoto_5824958-fun-fake-mask-lisolated-on-white-background.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 380px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 253px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/file_thumbview_approve\/5824958\/2\/istockphoto_5824958-fun-fake-mask-lisolated-on-white-background.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>In case you&#8217;ve been curious about the goings-on in my neck of the woods:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The economic crisis is leading desperate people to desperate measures. A financial planner was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/article\/20090123\/NEWS02\/901230410\/1018\">arrested and charged<\/a> after robbing a Peekskill bank at knifepoint this week. Here&#8217;s where the bizarro comes in: <\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Police said that Solomon was wearing a Groucho Marx mask, consisting of glasses, fake busy eyebrows and a fake mustache, when he entered Trustco Bank lobby in a Welcher Avenue shopping plaza a few minutes after its 9 a.m. opening on Jan. 16 and robbed the bank at knifepoint.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I wonder if this is the first time this stock disguise has ever been used in such a crime&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;ve been curious about the goings-on in my neck of the woods: The economic crisis is leading desperate people to desperate measures. A financial planner was arrested and charged after robbing a Peekskill bank at knifepoint this week. Here&#8217;s where the bizarro comes in: &#8220;Police said that Solomon was wearing a Groucho Marx &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Times is Hard&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1957,1665],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-random","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}