{"id":6064,"date":"2013-10-22T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2014-03-15T06:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T11:10:14","slug":"if-god-didnt-want-them-sheared-he-would-not-have-made-them-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6064","title":{"rendered":"If God didn&#8217;t want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The Magnificent Seven, and in the movie that spawned it, The Seven Samurai, a group of hired killers is employed- at a ludicrously small rate- by a small village who is being robbed by bandits every year.  The bandits usually leave them enough to live on, but barely. The film has been reprised many times, notably as &#8220;A Bugs Life&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Lets see, hardworking, check, thugs stealing, check, constant oppression year on year, check.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s like they were thinking of the Obama administration when they wrote it. <\/p>\n<p>Who will be our seven samurai? Will James Coburn rise up from the grave to throw a knife into our modern day bandits?<\/p>\n<p>Last night, in conversation, Ed says &#8220;But we&#8217;re really pretty comfortable. What&#8217;s the big deal?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pitiably, he&#8217;s right. Dammit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Magnificent Seven, and in the movie that spawned it, The Seven Samurai, a group of hired killers is employed- at a ludicrously small rate- by a small village who is being robbed by bandits every year. The bandits usually leave them enough to live on, but barely. The film has been reprised many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064"}],"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=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}