{"id":2343,"date":"2011-01-10T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2011-01-10T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:04:24","slug":"short-sweet-to-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/01\/10\/short-sweet-to-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Short, sweet, to the point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had originally started writing quite a rant about the attempted assassination of Rep. Giffords, and the pointless murder of six other people who just happened to be nearby.  But then I realized that I was spending whole paragraphs saying what could be better said with less flowery language.  So here goes. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I liked America better when we were in the business of toppling dangerous extremists instead of breeding them.<\/p>\n<p>Segments of our society are in dire danger of becoming the very kind of crazies that, ten years ago, we attributed only to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>More and more Americans are becoming the kind people we used to hate.  Because of hate.  Because of an excess of propaganda and filtering (from <em>both<\/em> sides, I might add) and an absolute vacuum of rational, reasoned thought and debate.<\/p>\n<p>This needs fixing.  Let&#8217;s not let the deaths of these six people be in vain.  The whole country needs to sit down and have a chat about this.<\/p>\n<p>Or do we just sit around and wait until it happens again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had originally started writing quite a rant about the attempted assassination of Rep. Giffords, and the pointless murder of six other people who just happened to be nearby. But then I realized that I was spending whole paragraphs saying what could be better said with less flowery language. So here goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}