{"id":1126,"date":"2003-08-15T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-15T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2003-08-15T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-15T15:59:00","slug":"imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/imagine","title":{"rendered":"Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-CUT=To Republicans and Hawks Of War:><\/p>\n<p>Remember how you felt on Sept. 11th? Remember how it felt to be in New York, to be looking at New York and knowing you have friends there.<\/p>\n<p>A attack. No Reason given. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Now think about being in Iraq. Belonging there. Living there. A person, just like you, doing your job over there.<\/p>\n<p>The government announces a fictional [at least, it certainly looks that way] reason for attacking you. Then they blow up half your city block, and knock out your power and water.<\/p>\n<p>A attack. No True Reasons. Why?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not any different. Now think about you feel about being complicit in another country&#8217;s 9\/11 experience.<\/p>\n<p>We liberated them iraqis. Sure &#8217;nuff. <\/p>\n<p>And the Saudis liberated us.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, they did. Liberated 3,500 of us right into the next universe.<\/p>\n<p>Are you getting even the faintest _twinge_ that maybe this was a bad idea?<br \/>\n<\/lj-CUT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how you felt on Sept. 11th? Remember how it felt to be in New York, to be looking at New York and knowing you have friends there. A attack. No Reason given. Why? Now think about being in Iraq. Belonging there. Living there. A person, just like you, doing your job over there. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}