{"id":2509,"date":"2010-04-27T07:29:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2010-04-27T07:29:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:29:19","slug":"welcome-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"welcome, sinner!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, on the anniversary of something or other, Bill Clinton wrote (or at least signed) an op-ed containing this phrase: <\/p>\n

we do not have the right to resort to violence — or the threat of violence — when we don\u2019t get our way. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow, how often does a former head of state join us anti-government extremists?<\/p>\n

Of course, by “we” he meant “the rest of you”. Jim Bovard<\/a>‘s response to this obvious hypocrisy is the best I’ve seen so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, on the anniversary of something or other, Bill Clinton wrote (or at least signed) an op-ed containing this phrase: we do not have the right to resort to violence — or the threat of violence — when we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}