{"id":624,"date":"2011-04-04T15:19:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2011-04-06T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T18:36:17","slug":"624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/624\/","title":{"rendered":"Theocratic rage in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So wish I could write like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2290306\/\">Christopher Hitchens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;How dispiriting to see, once again, the footage of theocratic rage in Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif. The same old dreary formula: self-righteous frenzy married to a neurotic need to take offense; the easy resort to indiscriminate violence and cruelty; the promulgation of makeshift fatwas by mullahs on the make; those writhing mustaches framing crude slogans of piety and hatred, and yelling for death as if on first-name terms with the Almighty. The spilling of blood and the spoliation of property\u2014all for nothing, and ostensibly &#8220;provoked&#8221; by the corny, brainless antics of a devout American nonentity, notice of whose mere existence is beneath the dignity of any thinking person.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So wish I could write like Christopher Hitchens: &#8220;How dispiriting to see, once again, the footage of theocratic rage in Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif. The same old dreary formula: self-righteous frenzy married to a neurotic need to take offense; the easy resort to indiscriminate violence and cruelty; the promulgation of makeshift fatwas by mullahs on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z11p.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}