{"id":31498,"date":"2023-10-13T06:45:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T11:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31498"},"modified":"2023-10-13T06:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T11:45:25","slug":"point-counterpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/13\/point-counterpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Point\/Counterpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2023\/10\/12\/the-true-story-of-matthew-shepard-it-wasnt-homophobia-that-killed-him-n584404\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The true story of Matthew Shepard: it wasn&#8217;t homophobia that killed him<\/a> talks about conclusions from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Matt-Hidden-Matthew-Shepard\/dp\/1586422146\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard<\/a><\/em> (2013) whose blurb declares:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Springfield, we get <a href=\"https:\/\/sgfcitizen.org\/springfield-culture\/arts\/considering-matthew-shepard-springfield-contemporary-theatre\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Considering Matthew Shepard<\/em><\/a>.  Odds are pretty good it does not mention meth.<\/p>\n<p>When the legend becomes fact, sing the legend, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>(Link to the Hot Air piece and book via <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/611005\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The true story of Matthew Shepard: it wasn&#8217;t homophobia that killed him talks about conclusions from The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard (2013) whose blurb declares: What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book [&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-31498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31498","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=31498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31500,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31498\/revisions\/31500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}