{"id":5,"date":"2005-03-05T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog2\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:49:13","slug":"5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/5\/5","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today during church <em>(apparently it&#8217;s Good Friday, though I don&#8217;t see what&#8217;s so good about it.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this the day that Jesus <strong>died<\/strong>?)<\/em>, the pastor went into a long, drawn out prayer for just about everyone imaginable:<em><br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;and let us pray for those who have passed; and let us pray for the President, and all other leaders; and let us pray for <strong>the evil-doers<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nWhen I heard this, I nearly burst out laughing, although I was able to contain it (after Valerie elbowed me in the ribs).\u00a0 However, when I got home I immediately cracked up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Of course the people don&#8217;t want war.\u00a0 But after all, it&#8217;s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it&#8217;s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it&#8217;s a democracy, a facist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.\u00a0 Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.\u00a0 That is easy.\u00a0 All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to great danger.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring\">Hermann G\u00f6ring<\/a> at the Nuremberg Trials (1946)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today during church (apparently it&#8217;s Good Friday, though I don&#8217;t see what&#8217;s so good about it.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this the day that Jesus died?), the pastor went into a long, drawn out prayer for just about everyone imaginable: &#8220;&#8230;and let us pray for those who have passed; and let us pray for the President, and all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}