{"id":2920,"date":"2008-05-26T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/05\/26\/a-bit-of-context\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T19:27:13","slug":"a-bit-of-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/05\/26\/a-bit-of-context\/","title":{"rendered":"a bit of context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I heard George W Bush thank the &#8220;Rolling Thunder&#8221; batch of bikers for standing up to Protesters who have been protesting the funerals of veterans.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, in this country when you hear &#8220;protesters&#8221; protesting veteran funerals,\u00c2\u00a0I picture a lot of people picturing &#8212; basically, flag-burning anti-war 60s style radical yippies.\u00c2\u00a0 For a bit of context, I feel the need to point out that the protesters &#8220;Rolling Thunder&#8221; stand in the way and of and offer a buffer area against are the followers and family members of Fred Phelps of &#8220;God Hates Fags&#8221; fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I heard George W Bush thank the &#8220;Rolling Thunder&#8221; batch of bikers for standing up to Protesters who have been protesting the funerals of veterans.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, in this country when you hear &#8220;protesters&#8221; protesting veteran funerals,\u00c2\u00a0I picture a lot of people picturing &#8212; basically, flag-burning anti-war 60s style radical yippies.\u00c2\u00a0 For a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}