{"id":1362,"date":"2012-02-09T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2018-09-06T04:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:35:54","slug":"happy-cinqo-de-mayo-your-house-is-on-fire-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cinqo de Mayo &#8211; your house is on fire (well&#8230;almost!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WARNING: adult language<\/strong> (thanks to my step-kid).  He&#8230;uhm..captured the moment from our other house, across the street, and he was inspired to make this riveting mini-documentary.  At 6 AM on May 5th, 2009, some bum was banging on my front door screaming, &#8220;Get out, get out &#8211; you gotta get out!&#8221; &#8211; I was sound asleep.  Thank God he was a bum with a cheezy cellphone and he&#8217;d already called the fire department. And thank God the fire department got there when when they did, or, I&#8217;d be living under a bridge.  They were there within 3 minutes and used some newfangled devices, like giant lawn sprinklers, to save my uninsured house (just barely).  Anyway, I walked out to the porch in my underwear that morning to have a full-blown anxiety attack. <strong> The vacant house next door had been torched &#8211; like so many others&#8230;.<\/strong> Since then they&#8217;ve burned two more, right behind me&#8230;. 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