{"id":1072,"date":"2004-06-22T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:43:01","slug":"1072","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/22\/1072\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kass is the Best Columnist in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There, I have said it.  Read his column today, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-0406200281jun20,1,977221.column?coll=chi-news-col\" target=\"new\">Terrorists take us to the real ring of hell<\/a> (worth the registration required).  Real meat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Avoiding the Berg video, or the pictures of what happened to Johnson, or the images of the next American they grab, won&#8217;t dull the knives of those who want us all dead. They want to drive Americans from where we want to stand in the world and send us quivering home.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding won&#8217;t make us safer here, either. It actually may do us all a disservice, since it allows us to keep an emotional distance.<\/p>\n<p>The flat of the killing knives is only an inch or two wide. It is much shorter than the distance between today and Sept. 11, 2001. We&#8217;ve achieved separation from each, and that is dangerous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why Kass isn&#8217;t a blogosphere superstar like Lileks, Appelbaum, or Steyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There, I have said it. Read his column today, entitled Terrorists take us to the real ring of hell (worth the registration required). Real meat: Avoiding the Berg video, or the pictures of what happened to Johnson, or the images of the next American they grab, won&#8217;t dull the knives of those who want us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23170,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/23170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}