{"id":2918,"date":"2002-09-30T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2002-09-30T11:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2002-09-30T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2002-09-30T11:38:45","slug":"pleasant-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"PLEASANT SURPRISES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u0092ve harshed Hesiod and Sullywatch over language and tone, and while I\u0092ve been impressed at the work Charles at LGF does in bringing Middle Eastern news to light, I\u0092ve got issues with his comments section; the omnipresent tone of Arab-bashing and chest-beating, at a time when we need to proceed with determination, care, and seriousness is part of what led to my \u0091thought experiment\u0092 below (and which I\u0092ll follow up on as time allows today).<br \/>\nThen this charming set of <a href=http:\/\/www.uppity-negro.com\/archives\/000567.html target=\u0094browser\u0094>comments<\/a> over at Aaron&#8217;s &#8216;Uppity Negro&#8217; blog was pointed out to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[sorry, crabby] I feel a collecting-spree coming on, &#038; I&#8217;m afraid Armed Liberal&#8217;s blinky, doe-eyes are looking mighty fine. Can I have&#8217;em, Aaron? Can I?<br \/>\nPosted by: <a href=mailto:kennedy.246@osu.edu>Neogrammarian<\/a> on September 16, 2002 05:21 PM<br \/>\nAs long as I can have the ears.<br \/>\nThose necklaces of them look quite fetching.<br \/>\nPosted by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uppity-negro.com\" target=\u0094browser\u0094>Aaron<\/a> on September 16, 2002 05:41 PM<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, trying to figure out how to comment on them, I can only think of one response\u0085<a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterstageright.com\/archive\/articles\/0602\/0602sigs.htm\" target=\"browser\">molon labe<\/a>, kids, molon labe.<br \/>\n<b>[a few folks wanted to know what &#8216;molon labe&#8217; meant&#8230;I added a link]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u0092ve harshed Hesiod and Sullywatch over language and tone, and while I\u0092ve been impressed at the work Charles at LGF does in bringing Middle Eastern news to light, I\u0092ve got issues with his comments section; the omnipresent tone of Arab-bashing and chest-beating, at a time when we need to proceed with determination, care, and seriousness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}