{"id":16175,"date":"2011-10-14T22:12:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=16175"},"modified":"2011-10-14T22:12:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T05:12:02","slug":"phoenix-jones-says-hes-training-a-replacement-hero-nightstick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/10\/14\/phoenix-jones-says-hes-training-a-replacement-hero-nightstick\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Jones Says He\u2019s Training a Replacement Hero, Nightstick."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted: <a href=\"http:\/\/publicola.com\/2011\/10\/14\/phoenix-jones-says-hes-training-a-replacement-hero-nightstick\/\">http:\/\/publicola.com\/2011\/10\/14\/phoenix-jones-says-hes-training-a-replacement-hero-nightstick\/<\/a><br \/>\nBy <a title=\"Posts by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee\" href=\"http:\/\/publicola.com\/author\/jonah-spangenthal-lee\/\">Jonah Spangenthal-Lee<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\nAfter dramatically revealing his secret identity to a crowd of reporters following <a href=\"http:\/\/publicola.com\/2011\/10\/13\/im-phoenix-jones-im-also-ben-fodor\/\">his court hearing at the county jail Thursday morning<\/a>, Phoenix Jones\u2014legal name: Ben Fodor\u2014tells PubliCola he plans to continue patrolling Seattle\u2019s streets, but also says\u00a0he\u2019s \u201ctraining a replacement.\u201d<br \/>\nFodor says his replacement, known as Nightstick, is the strong silent type.<br \/>\nFodor says Nightstick\u2014a friend of Fodor\u2019s from the mixed martial arts fighting world\u2014is more interested in going out and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batman:_Knightfall\">thwomping bad guys<\/a>\u00a0than calling 911 and waiting for police.\u00a0Fodor says Nightstick is already meting out street justice in Seattle, breaking up \u201csix or seven crimes,\u201d and recently left a drug dealer handcuffed to a light pole.<br \/>\nFodor says ultimately he\u2019s hoping Nightstick becomes \u201ca guy that can function the way [he] did before [he] was outed before the Seattle Police Department.\u201d (Though Fodor, aka Phoenix Jones, says he won\u2019t slowing down his own crime fighting.)<br \/>\nFodor would not provide any details about Nightstick\u2019s true identity, but said he his a \u201cmixed martial artist\u201d who wears \u201chead-to-toe covered gear\u201d and \u201cdoesn\u2019t do interviews.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Jones\u2014legal name: Ben Fodor\u2014tells PubliCola he plans to continue patrolling Seattle\u2019s streets, but also says he\u2019s \u201ctraining a replacement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[286,628,955,1724,1866,2041,2063,2116,2338,2341],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}