{"id":3528,"date":"2010-12-01T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/america-is-scared-stupid\/"},"modified":"2010-12-01T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:42:01","slug":"america-is-scared-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/america-is-scared-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;America is scared stupid.&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/12\/01\/1950980\/a-country-of-crazies.html\">A country of crazies &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thoughtful people ought to be alarmed.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of terrorism, you see, is not to make a nation bleed but to make it fear. Oklahoma&#8217;s nonsensical law suggests our enemies have been successful in that.<\/p>\n<p>One recalls how Bush stood beneath a banner that crowed of a victory against terrorism. But to the degree Oklahoma accurately reflects our national mindset, it is the terrorists who deserve to hoist that banner. <font style=\"background-color: #dfce04\">America is scared stupid.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>Mission accomplished. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/12\/01\/1950980\/a-country-of-crazies.html\">A country of crazies &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A country of crazies &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com Thoughtful people ought to be alarmed. The goal of terrorism, you see, is not to make a nation bleed but to make it fear. Oklahoma&#8217;s nonsensical law suggests our enemies have been successful in that. One recalls how Bush stood beneath a banner that crowed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/america-is-scared-stupid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;America is scared stupid.&rdquo;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","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=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}