{"id":957,"date":"2004-05-18T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2018-08-13T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T22:07:04","slug":"957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/18\/957\/","title":{"rendered":"And Your Little Dog, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little unwritten mandate to the NPR news types who led off the 3:30 newscast with a two-sentence &#8220;story&#8221; that relatives of and former Abu Gharib detainees want the soldiers who humiliated them <b><i>put to death<\/i><\/b>.  That&#8217;s the whole story.  A throwaway line with no balance or other information, undoubtedly crafted carefully to work &#8220;Abu Gharib&#8221; into the the top of another newscast.  Obviously, all those liberal arts classes did not go for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>A hearty and somewhat louder unwritten mandate to you for giving this sort of barbaric, disproportionate punishment proposal a forum, which might lead some people to even entertain the notion that that West Virginia private is going to face a firing squad or a stoning for stripping clothes from a detainee or for making an Middle Easterner put a shoe in his mouth.  How dare you?  How <i>&lt;omitted&gt;<\/i> dare you?<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean <i>an unwritten mandate<\/i>?  Well, gentle reader, as this is a family blog, I won&#8217;t actually type it here, but suffice to say that when it&#8217;s a spoken mandate and I am feeling particularly combative, I tend to pronounce the verb portion to rhyme with <i>awk<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little unwritten mandate to the NPR news types who led off the 3:30 newscast with a two-sentence &#8220;story&#8221; that relatives of and former Abu Gharib detainees want the soldiers who humiliated them put to death. That&#8217;s the whole story. A throwaway line with no balance or other information, undoubtedly crafted carefully to work &#8220;Abu [&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-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23304,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/23304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}