{"id":2212,"date":"2007-08-06T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T19:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/never-again-2\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T19:38:48","slug":"never-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/never-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"never again"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Today is the 62nd anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Remember it well and say, &#8220;never again.&#8221; Say there is a limit, there is a proper place to draw the line. Say that justifications cannot excuse the inexcusable. It would be evil madness to ever, ever, ever use that power again to fry the living.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Democrats and Republicans alike attacked Barack Obama for expressing a much more dilute sentiment. The insane scream that all cards are on the table, no options are inconceivable. I hope that somewhere in the chain of command there is someone with enough humanity to say, &#8220;NEVER AGAIN.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, look around. We&#8217;re vile. We&#8217;re going to destroy ourselves and the world one way or another. Might as well get it over with in a flash. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PS: I hope you saw Masters of Science Fiction on Saturday. I assume the conservative bloggers are howling for blood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Twisted, sightless wrecks of men<br \/>\ngo groping on their knees<br \/>\nand cry in pain<br \/>\nnow the sun has come to earth<br \/>\n&#8212; Paul Simon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 62nd anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Remember it well and say, &#8220;never again.&#8221; Say there is a limit, there is a proper place to draw the line. Say that justifications cannot excuse the inexcusable. It would be evil madness to ever, ever, ever use that power again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/never-again-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">never again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}