{"id":22,"date":"2004-09-08T00:32:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T05:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-08-22T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T23:06:03","slug":"beslan-massacre-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/09\/08\/beslan-massacre-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Beslan massacre redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Qur&#8217;an Project, a <a href=\"http:\/\/quranblog.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/horrible-choice.html\">heartbreaking companion<\/a> to my previous posts that referred to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/09\/04\/chechnya-massacre\/\">tragic<\/a>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/09\/06\/note-to-mike-pacifists-suck\/\">massacre<\/a> in Russia last week.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n[But first, let me get this out of the way; I make mistakes. I made a big one a couple days ago: the terrorists holding the school were primarily Chechen, but the school was in Beslan, a city in nearby North Ossetia. <em>Mea culpa.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Fair warning: be prepared to cry.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is why we are fighting terrorism. This reason, precisely. Never forget this.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Qur&#8217;an Project, a heartbreaking companion to my previous posts that referred to the tragic massacre in Russia last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salmagundi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}