{"id":462,"date":"2010-11-22T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?p=462"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:14:50","slug":"babykiller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/babykiller\/","title":{"rendered":"Babykiller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a new one on me, but not my father.<\/p>\n<p>Although the actual word &#8216;babykiller&#8217; was not used it was a sobering experience the other night when a &#8216;friend&#8217; equated the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the <strong>murder <\/strong>of innocents. It was done offhandedly, as though it were a given. Having served in both theaters, I can assure you (as I tried to assure him, to no effect) that the comparison is ridiculous. Yet there are people out there who actually think that. Apparently, I know such a person. Not something I was expecting to discover among my circle of friends.<\/p>\n<p>On a more palatable note, Brad Torgerson has<a href=\"http:\/\/bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/19\/when-total-strangers-say-thank-you\/\"> a very nice blog post<\/a> up today about some of the other kinds of experiences we who serve in the military have at home. Pleasanter ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a new one on me, but not my father. Although the actual word &#8216;babykiller&#8217; was not used it was a sobering experience the other night when a &#8216;friend&#8217; equated the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the murder of innocents. It was done offhandedly, as though it were a given. Having served in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/babykiller\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Babykiller<\/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":[11,12,16,17,20,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-guard","category-politics","category-social","category-soldiering","category-terrorism","category-war","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}