{"id":11,"date":"2010-02-26T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgttodd.wordpress.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:16:05","slug":"a-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/a-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"A tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12033987\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31\" title=\"ATragedy-20100226\" src=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/atragedy-20100226.jpg\" alt=\"Drunk woman waving a sword\" width=\"195\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drunk woman waving a sword<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seriously, we have advocated the use of swords in conflict resolution and personal defense for many years. We were finally making some progress. At long last the whole debate was making its way into the mainstream and getting the serious consideration it deserved.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in one fell swoop, it&#8217;s been reduced, again, to the status of a crazy drunk woman waving her sword in public and threatening to &#8220;cut&#8221; people.<\/p>\n<p>I weep for what we have lost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12033987\">http:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12033987<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, we have advocated the use of swords in conflict resolution and personal defense for many years. We were finally making some progress. At long last the whole debate was making its way into the mainstream and getting the serious consideration it deserved. Now, in one fell swoop, it&#8217;s been reduced, again, to the status &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/a-tragedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A tragedy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,48,41,43],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-drunk","tag-politics","tag-sword","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}