{"id":1532,"date":"2007-10-31T04:13:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2007-10-31T04:13:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:13:57","slug":"the-ghoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"The Ghoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard on NPR; smug lefty exploits the fallen troops:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carryabigsticker.com\">Anti-War T-Shirts featuring the names of 3,734 troops who died in Iraq<\/a><font face=\"Arial\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and wraps self as potential &#8220;victim&#8221;hood&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>These shirts are illegal in five states and could soon be illegal nationwide.\u00a0As seen on CNN, NPR, USA Today, and of course, FOX-News. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And while he ignores the requests of families of some of the fallen who disagree with his anti-war stance (it&#8217;d dilute the message) by wrapping himself in the First Amendment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the &#8220;auteur&#8221; also points out &#8211; as obliquely as possible &#8211; that he&#8217;s turning a $4-5 profit <em>per shirt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/a.cbc.ca\/redirector.mp3?hb=DM560316P3ZN71EN3&#038;cv.c2=http:\/\/podcast.cbc.ca\/mp3\/asithappens_20071029_3746.mp3&#038;cd=1&#038;hec=1&#038;vjs=HBX0201R&#038;target=http:\/\/podcast.cbc.ca\/mp3\/asithappens_20071029_3746.mp3\">listen for yourself<\/a>, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be a shame if his business accidentally fell off the table and broke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard on NPR; smug lefty exploits the fallen troops: Anti-War T-Shirts featuring the names of 3,734 troops who died in Iraq\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;and wraps self as potential &#8220;victim&#8221;hood&#8230; These shirts are illegal in five states and could soon be illegal nationwide.\u00a0As seen on CNN, NPR, USA Today, and of course, FOX-News. And while he ignores 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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}