{"id":251,"date":"2002-05-31T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2002-05-31T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=251"},"modified":"2004-10-20T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T18:12:37","slug":"having-a-lilecious-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"having a Lilecious day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. in the slow moments of my temp job.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/02\/0602\/060102.html> Lileks watches 9\/11 documentary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt says something about America that you can&#8217;t blow up an average skyscraper without killing people of every race and creed on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>It says something about America&#8217;s critics that fighting Arab Islamists is automatically racist &#8212; and the murder of diverse peoples by an ethnically homogenous group is explained as a response to .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. racist American policies.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/writings\/screed\/soliah.html>Lileks explains practical socialism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n(It&#8217;s always okay to kill lower-case people on behalf of upper-case People.  Class warfare always involves a lot of case warfare.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/writings\/screed\/salter2.html> Lileks on presidential language<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nin the entirelty of Bill Clinton&#8217;s career he issued an endless stream of soggy bloviation, and the only three lines for which he will be remembered &#8212; &#8220;The era of big government is over,&#8221; &#8220;It depends what the meaning of the word <i>is<\/i> is,&#8221; and &#8220;I did not have sex with that woman&#8221; &#8212; were, in turn, insincere, evasive, and dishonest.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aw come on.  What about &#8220;We can&#8217;t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. in the slow moments of my temp job. Lileks watches 9\/11 documentary: It says something about America that you can&#8217;t blow up an average skyscraper without killing people of every race and creed on the planet. It says something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}