{"id":16476,"date":"2010-12-20T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16476"},"modified":"2010-12-20T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:15:08","slug":"faint-praise-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16476","title":{"rendered":"Faint Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ragged edges of liberty often involve defending the lowest form of scum who benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>So as repulsed as I am by Julian Assange and &#8220;WikiLeaks'&#8221; release of leaked diplomatic communications, I&#8217;m not behind the government&#8217;s efforts to try to find some way &#8211; any way &#8211; to try him as a spy.<\/p>\n<p>It just doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with defenders like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/transcripts\/2010\/12\/17\/01\">this<\/a>, who needs enemies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is worrying some members of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, who wrote a letter to Holder and President Obama urging restraint. Professor Todd Gitlin, who signed the letter, says freedom of the press is at stake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Assange should try to get them to just shut up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ragged edges of liberty often involve defending the lowest form of scum who benefit from it. So as repulsed as I am by Julian Assange and &#8220;WikiLeaks&#8217;&#8221; release of leaked diplomatic communications, I&#8217;m not behind the government&#8217;s efforts to try to find some way &#8211; any way &#8211; to try him as a spy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476","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=16476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16477,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions\/16477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}