{"id":4160,"date":"2024-11-06T10:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:23:42","slug":"a-voice-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/06\/a-voice-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A Voice From the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2026 I know I feel differently in the morning, after seeing the pictures and reading the stories of lives arbitrarily snuffed out and people who had little reduced to people who have nothing at all. But tonight I&#8217;m going to bed in a vicious mood, with a stomach so full of contempt for this poisoned republic and its brain-dead citizens that I can taste it in my mouth, like bile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And the only thing I can think to ask God\u2014if she does exists\u2014is why, just for <em>once<\/em>, can&#8217;t you smite the wicked instead of the innocent?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted by billmon at 01:09 AM<\/p>\n<p>(Billmon\u2019s full post can now be found on the Internet Wayback Machine at\u00a0 https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051001001007\/http:\/\/billmon.org\/)<\/p>\n<p>This 24 September 2005 post was made during the height (or depths) of the Iraq War during the Bush-Cheney regime.\u00a0 Also recall the other Bush debacle, Hurricane Katrina, was just the month before, August 23\u201331, 2005.\u00a0 We thought we were in the depths of depravity and had no inkling that we were only at the higher rings of hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 I know I feel differently in the morning, after seeing the pictures and reading the stories of lives arbitrarily snuffed out and people who had little reduced to people who have nothing at all. But tonight I&#8217;m going to bed in a vicious mood, with a stomach so full of contempt for this poisoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-vistas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}