{"id":10169,"date":"2010-04-19T07:23:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2010-04-18T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T20:30:38","slug":"the-laugh-ninjas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10169","title":{"rendered":"The Laugh Ninjas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 9\/11, I was 38, with a bad eye and a bad knee and a couple of kids.\u00a0\u00a0 The thought flashed through my head not a few times in the next year or three; &#8220;I wish I was ten years younger, had two kids&#8217; fewer obligations, and was in the kind of shape I was in before I got married and had kids&#8221;, so I could have done <em>something <\/em>in the war that had just come to us.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/terrorism-in-the-uk\/7594722\/We-should-laugh-at-al-Qaeda-says-report.html\">this bit here<\/a>, I see that in fact I can:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Demos think tank recommends that shows &#8211; such as Jihad! The Musical or the film Four Lions, by the Brass Eye satirist Chris Morris &#8211; should be used to highlight the failings of violent philosophies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, Abu &#8211; I had a <em>keffiyeh <\/em>like that &#8211; til my dad got a job!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9\/11, I was 38, with a bad eye and a bad knee and a couple of kids.\u00a0\u00a0 The thought flashed through my head not a few times in the next year or three; &#8220;I wish I was ten years younger, had two kids&#8217; fewer obligations, and was in the kind of shape I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10206,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}