{"id":2733,"date":"2015-04-11T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2015-04-11T09:16:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T14:16:03","slug":"shocking-or-numbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"SHOCKING &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR NUMBING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight months ago, I wrote this down without posting it.\u00a0 Very interesting to read it again and post it now.<\/p>\n<p>Brutality in Iraq is shocking our senses, and at the same time, numbing our senses, so that when the unthinkable happens to grow here, we don&#8217;t revolt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight months ago, I wrote this down without posting it.\u00a0 Very interesting to read it again and post it now. Brutality in Iraq is shocking our senses, and at the same time, numbing our senses, so that when the unthinkable happens to grow here, we don&#8217;t revolt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}