{"id":170,"date":"2004-03-12T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/03\/12\/b9c39bd0-cc44-4909-ba1a-badc7d52e3fe\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:30:04","slug":"b9c39bd0-cc44-4909-ba1a-badc7d52e3fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/b9c39bd0-cc44-4909-ba1a-badc7d52e3fe\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>We&#8217;re Really At War<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The bastards have struck again, this time in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/20040311elpepuopi_1_G_LCO.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>My leftist pals will shrug and say that ETA has a legitimate beef with the Spanish government. The families of the almost 200 victims will certainly disagree. Terror attacks can never be legitimate in what we hope is a civil society, but striving for that ideal frightens some people. The apologists; the doubters; the chatterers; and, clearly, the zealots.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal democracy took another punch in the head today, the question for the next round is, do we take a dive or do we come out swinging?<\/p>\n<p>You pick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re Really At War The bastards have struck again, this time in Madrid. My leftist pals will shrug and say that ETA has a legitimate beef with the Spanish government. The families of the almost 200 victims will certainly disagree. Terror attacks can never be legitimate in what we hope is a civil society, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/b9c39bd0-cc44-4909-ba1a-badc7d52e3fe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}