{"id":85,"date":"2007-03-28T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themediumtech.com\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/03\/28\/xbox-for-your-gun\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:51:28","slug":"xbox-for-your-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Xbox for your gun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml'><\/br><a href='http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSN2719198320070328?feedType=RSS'>Xbox for your gun? | Technology | Reuters<\/a> <br \/><\/br> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MEXICO CITY (Reuters) &#8211; Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and video-game consoles.<\/p>\n<p>Launching the program Tuesday in the notorious inner-city barrio of Tepito, which police stormed last month, city police chief Joel Ortega said anyone who turns in a high-caliber weapon like a machine gun will get a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Owners can swap smaller guns for cash or Microsoft Corp.&#8217;s Xbox video-game consoles under the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Newly elected Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has moved quickly to restore order to the chaotic capital by going after well-known crime dens and clearing the city&#8217;s narrow streets of informal vendors whose stalls have blocked sidewalks for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox for your gun? | Technology | Reuters MEXICO CITY (Reuters) &#8211; Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and video-game consoles. Launching the program Tuesday in the notorious inner-city barrio of Tepito, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}