{"id":1753,"date":"2012-12-19T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2012-12-19T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:33:45","slug":"this-bears-repeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/19\/this-bears-repeating\/","title":{"rendered":"This bears repeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newtown kids v. Yemenis and Pakistanis: what explains the disparate reactions?<br \/>\nNumerous commentators have rightly lamented the difference in how these childrens&#8217; deaths are perceived. What explains it?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/dec\/19\/newtown-drones-children-deaths\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/dec\/19\/newtown-drones-children-deaths<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I commented earlier a bit on the <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/17\/newtown-connecticut\/\">Newtown<\/a> tragedy where I attempted to emphasize that the real problem had nothing to do with guns and everything to do with our crappy &#8216;your on your own&#8217; government.  Well, the above article takes a completely different tact and looks at the wildly asymmetric reaction of Americans to the Newtown tragedy and compares and contrasts it with the yawning indifference to the ongoing tragedies that the US commits regularly in Muslim countries.  It should be required reading for every citizen; I doubt, though, it will make any sort of impact.  Ignorance is bliss and our government and our subservient media apparatus work to keep the populous (sheeple) in bliss.<\/p>\n<p>Them terrorists really hate us for our freedom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newtown kids v. Yemenis and Pakistanis: what explains the disparate reactions? Numerous commentators have rightly lamented the difference in how these childrens&#8217; deaths are perceived. What explains it? http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/dec\/19\/newtown-drones-children-deaths I commented earlier a bit on the Newtown tragedy where I attempted to emphasize that the real problem had nothing to do with guns and everything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/19\/this-bears-repeating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This bears repeating&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}