{"id":51255,"date":"2015-02-11T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51255"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T13:24:15","slug":"everywhere-are-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51255","title":{"rendered":"Everywhere Are Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll cop to it. \u00a0I&#8217;ve felt like assaulting people with those idiot &#8220;Coexist&#8221; bumper stickers on their cars&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelifedivine.com\/mc_images\/product\/detail\/Coexist-small-sticker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;with the weapon of satire and mockery. Nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Muslim thugs in neighborhood near Paris took a more aggressive line, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2015\/02\/french-artists-calls-for-peace-end-in-brutal-beating-by-local-muslims\/\">pummeling a street artist who&#8217;d painted the platitude<\/a> on one of their walls.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Four Muslims in Porte Dor\u00e9e (the Golden door), a ghetto east of Paris, beat artist Combo after he refused to take down his Coexist street art. Combo suffered a dislocated shoulder, bruises and a black eye.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, I&#8217;ve been tempted to do the same thing to graffiti artists. \u00a0But again, only using the one-two punch of ridicule and derision.<\/p>\n<p>Still, coexistence is possible:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/bloviatingzeppelin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Coexist-Sticker-New.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We just have to be clear about our boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll cop to it. \u00a0I&#8217;ve felt like assaulting people with those idiot &#8220;Coexist&#8221; bumper stickers on their cars&#8230; &#8230;with the weapon of satire and mockery. Nothing more. Unfortunately, Muslim thugs in neighborhood near Paris took a more aggressive line, pummeling a street artist who&#8217;d painted the platitude on one of their walls. Four Muslims in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51255","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=51255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51256,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51255\/revisions\/51256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}