{"id":3657,"date":"2009-01-01T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2009-01-02T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T04:22:25","slug":"aspen-bomber-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Bomber Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/artsuspectapd.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/artsuspectapd.jpg','popup','width=292,height=219,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/artsuspectapd-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Art.Suspect.Apd\" \/><\/a><strong>James Blanning<\/strong>, 72, a well-known Aspen crank delivered &#8220;bombs wrapped as as Christmas presents to two banks Wednesday along with notes threatening &#8220;mass death&#8221; if they did not turn over tens of thousands of dollars.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Blanning, who had lived in the Aspen his whole life, was found dead in his car Wednesday December 31, 2008 after apparently shooting himself, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/01\/01\/aspen.banks\/?iref=mpstoryview\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The incidents Wednesday sparked the evacuation of a 16-block area of Aspen on New Year&#8217;s Eve, one of the busiest days of the year for businesses in Aspen. . . . Bomb squads ultimately detonated the devices, and no one was injured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing ESPN is pretty glad this didn&#8217;t go down during the <strong>X Games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/01\/01\/aspen.banks\/?iref=mpstoryview\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/02\/us\/02aspen.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=aspen%20bomber&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Blanning, 72, a well-known Aspen crank delivered &#8220;bombs wrapped as as Christmas presents to two banks Wednesday along with notes threatening &#8220;mass death&#8221; if they did not turn over tens of thousands of dollars.&#8221; Blanning, who had lived in the Aspen his whole life, was found dead in his car Wednesday December 31, 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}