{"id":473,"date":"2012-07-22T23:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T07:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:04","slug":"everybody-is-all-sorts-of-upset-about-aurora-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/thoughts-on-the-fly\/everybody-is-all-sorts-of-upset-about-aurora-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody is All Sorts of Upset about Aurora, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It really strikes me as odd that, while everybody is all upset about the folks killed by that disturbed guy over in Aurora, Colorado, they just can&#8217;t get worked up about worse things which happen all over the world by the hand of our own government&#8211;civilians killed, tortured, maimed, and, always, forgotten or, worse, dismissed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So twelve people got blown away by a whacko, but thousands are suffering worse everywhere else, and we just shrug it off&#8230;don&#8217;t even give it a second thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why is that?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Proximity?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really strikes me as odd that, while everybody is all upset about the folks killed by that disturbed guy over in Aurora, Colorado, they just can&#8217;t get worked up about worse things which happen all over the world by the hand of our own government&#8211;civilians killed, tortured, maimed, and, always, forgotten or, worse, dismissed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,13,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}