{"id":51121,"date":"2015-02-05T07:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51121"},"modified":"2015-02-05T07:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:47:37","slug":"an-appeal-for-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51121","title":{"rendered":"An Appeal For Honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my fringe-libertarian, as well as &#8220;progressive&#8221;, friends are fond of chanting &#8220;Anti-Zionism isn&#8217;t Antisemitism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"    \" src=\"https:\/\/latuffcartoons.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/anti-zionism-is-not-anti-semitism.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"419\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Give to the &#8220;National Metaphor Society&#8221;. \u00a0Because a mind that stops developing its metaphorical facility in fourth grade is a mind the world doesn&#8217;t need to have unleashed on it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s a little like saying &#8220;I endorse the policies that involved the destruction of Native American culture, the near-extinction of their people and the carving of their conquerors&#8217; chiefs&#8217; faces into their holiest piece of real estate &#8211; but I sure *admired* the Lakota&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my fringe-libertarian, as well as &#8220;progressive&#8221;, friends are fond of chanting &#8220;Anti-Zionism isn&#8217;t Antisemitism&#8221;. That&#8217;s a little like saying &#8220;I endorse the policies that involved the destruction of Native American culture, the near-extinction of their people and the carving of their conquerors&#8217; chiefs&#8217; faces into their holiest piece of real estate &#8211; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51121","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=51121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51123,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51121\/revisions\/51123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}