{"id":3064,"date":"2008-09-06T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T17:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/06\/not-dead\/"},"modified":"2008-09-06T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T20:54:43","slug":"not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/06\/not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Not dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/02\/oh-joy\/\">I did not mean to suggest that Tom Metzger was dead<\/a>, and I do not believe that my blog post about a plastered neo-nazi sticker could be\u00c2\u00a0honestly be read as such, let alone by Tom Metzger.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, I can&#8217;t even really come up with even a weasly apology of &#8220;If read as such&#8221; with any force of honesty attached.<\/p>\n<p>But, to reiterate, Tom Metzger, the leader and founder of the &#8220;White Aryan Resistance&#8221;, is not dead.\u00c2\u00a0 His Ghost wanders about nowhere.\u00c2\u00a0 His live self\u00c2\u00a0resides wherever it is he resides these days, plucked over to interviews whenever media feels the itch to document neo-nazis &#8212; or rehash events from\u00c2\u00a0two decades ago as the Portland Mercury did a few weeks back, and where he keeps track of whenever someone might mention his name on a blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Bottom line:\u00c2\u00a0 Rumors of\u00c2\u00a0Tom Metzger&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0death have been greatly exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>As for Minneapolis, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.citypages.com\/2008-05-21\/news\/moles-wanted\/\">with a quick nod over to this old news item<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Mixing hippies and vegans with street thugs, neo-nazi&#8217;s and police agents&#8230;err&#8230;uck? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though, I do not believe they are much anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>AND&#8230; I will not be carrying on with this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, I did not mean to suggest that Tom Metzger was dead, and I do not believe that my blog post about a plastered neo-nazi sticker could be\u00c2\u00a0honestly be read as such, let alone by Tom Metzger.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, I can&#8217;t even really come up with even a weasly apology of &#8220;If read as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}