{"id":743,"date":"2006-08-11T01:34:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T01:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2006-08-11T01:34:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T01:34:42","slug":"terrorism-shmerrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/terrorism-shmerrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism Shmerrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you get scared and depressed about the news of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/08\/10\/us.security\/index.html\">foiled terror plot<\/a>, do yourself a favour and go and watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zefrank.com\/theshow\/archives\/2006\/08\/081006.html\">yesterday&#8217;s episode<\/a> of The Show.  Ze Frank gives some very sensible dimensions to this news.  It&#8217;s a good analysis of terrorism, and how we should be reacting to it as a society, which is basically exactly how we aren&#8217;t reacting to it.  In fact he says that Bush&#8217;s general sweeping statements more or less reinforce the terror aspect of terrorism and make it more effective as a tactic.  Smart stuff, Ze.<\/p>\n<p>Love that guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you get scared and depressed about the news of the foiled terror plot, do yourself a favour and go and watch yesterday&#8217;s episode of The Show. Ze Frank gives some very sensible dimensions to this news. It&#8217;s a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/terrorism-shmerrorism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-bZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}