{"id":4108,"date":"2011-01-10T07:34:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2011-01-10T07:34:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:34:01","slug":"a-retraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4108","title":{"rendered":"A retraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I counseled hatred for Jared Lee Loughner, and I have to retract that- I dislike and don&#8217;t do hatred. At least, I work very hard to try to avoid it. <\/p>\n<p>See, if I had a houseful of cats, or a barnload of chickens, and there was a coyote and a fox, I&#8217;d shoot them both in a new york minute. But I wouldn&#8217;t hate them- in fact, I love dogs, and would be sad to have to destroy them- but  the good of my chickens comes before the predator. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to counsel hatred; instead, I&#8217;d like for this guy to be taken down like a mad dog, like a predator in a target rich environment. To hate someone- anyone, I think- is wrong. Better to dispassionately eliminate the threat from our society and thus be shut of the whole menace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I counseled hatred for Jared Lee Loughner, and I have to retract that- I dislike and don&#8217;t do hatred. At least, I work very hard to try to avoid it. See, if I had a houseful of cats, or a barnload of chickens, and there was a coyote and a fox, I&#8217;d shoot them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}