{"id":888,"date":"2013-11-07T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:27:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:27:28","slug":"chattanooga-area-gangs-set-to-settle-feud-in-a-dance-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/11\/07\/chattanooga-area-gangs-set-to-settle-feud-in-a-dance-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Chattanooga area gangs set to settle feud in a dance off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a press conference held this morning in front of an East Lake community Church, members from opposing Chattanooga area gangs announced they would finally settle their differences in an old fashioned dance off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gangs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-889\" alt=\"gangs\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gangs-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gangs-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gangs.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Leaders announced the dance off would be held in a neutral territory. McKenzie Arena and the Memorial Auditorium are among the areas being considered.<\/p>\n<p>Judges for the scheduled dance off will include: Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, Times Free Press resident gang expert David Cook, and gang truce founder Reginald &#8220;Joker&#8221; Oakley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to put down the motherfucking glock and bring out the break dancin&#8217; box&#8221;, explained local gang leader Jamal Jeffers. &#8220;No longer will blood be spilled on these jazz hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press conference held this morning in front of an East Lake community Church, members from opposing Chattanooga area gangs announced they would finally settle their differences in an old fashioned dance off. Leaders announced the dance off would be held in a neutral territory. McKenzie Arena and the Memorial Auditorium are among the areas being considered. Judges for the scheduled dance off will include: Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, Times Free Press resident gang expert David Cook, and gang truce founder Reginald &#8220;Joker&#8221; Oakley. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to put down the motherfucking glock and bring out the break dancin&#8217; box&#8221;,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}