{"id":71248,"date":"2019-05-07T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71248"},"modified":"2019-05-05T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T14:23:36","slug":"the-snowiest-flake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71248","title":{"rendered":"The Snowiest Flake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>75 years ago, thousands of Americans &#8211; teenagers or not far removed from it, mostly &#8211; waded through the surf into machine gun fire to begin liberating Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is their legacy of boldness and forthright courage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SnowiestFlake.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71249\" width=\"431\" height=\"516\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Ford:  the National Day of Prayer &#8220;stigmatizes&#8221; you in exactly the same way the Irish Fair &#8220;stigmatizes&#8221; Norwegians.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Atheists managed to jam down a &#8220;National Day of Skepticism&#8221;, all it would do is keep them occupied (presumbly withe the vegans and crossfitters) while I go about my business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then, I&#8217;m not nearly that &#8220;woke&#8221;, so what do I know? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>75 years ago, thousands of Americans &#8211; teenagers or not far removed from it, mostly &#8211; waded through the surf into machine gun fire to begin liberating Europe. This is their legacy of boldness and forthright courage: Mr. Ford: the National Day of Prayer &#8220;stigmatizes&#8221; you in exactly the same way the Irish Fair &#8220;stigmatizes&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-pc","category-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71250,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71248\/revisions\/71250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}