{"id":3764,"date":"2009-05-31T17:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2009-05-31T17:26:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T22:26:28","slug":"why-i-need-to-keep-the-world-at-arms-length-for-a-while-every-now-and-thencontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3764","title":{"rendered":"Why I Need To Keep The World At Arms Length For A While Every Now And Then&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m reading this morning that one of god&#8217;s little right hands shot a doctor to death&#8230;in his church&#8230;during services&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/wires\/ap\/news\/nation_world\/20090531_ap_kanabortiondockilledinchurchsuspectheld.html\"><strong>Kan. abortion doc killed in church; suspect held<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WICHITA, Kan. &#8211; Dr. George Tiller, who remained one of the nation&#8217;s few providers of late-term abortions through decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed Sunday in a church where he was serving as an usher and his wife was in the choir.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman fled, but a 51-year-old suspect was arrested some 170 miles away in suburban Kansas City three hours after the shooting, Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrew Sullivan writes that Bill O&#8217;Reilly <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/05\/a-far-right-assassination.html\"> painted a bull&#8217;s eye<\/a> on the doctor during one of his shows. John Aravosis reminds us that President Obama caved recently to right wing demands to bottle up or tone down a report on domestic terrorism.&nbsp; At some point, this naton is going to have to confront its right wing hate mongers and their willing tools.&nbsp; Either that, or let them cow us all into the facist theocracy of their dreams.&nbsp; In the meantime, I am on vacation and I have a new mantra&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;I will not become a misanthrope&#8230;I will not become a misanthrope&#8230;I will not become a misanthrope&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m reading this morning that one of god&#8217;s little right hands shot a doctor to death&#8230;in his church&#8230;during services&#8230; Kan. abortion doc killed in church; suspect held WICHITA, Kan. &#8211; Dr. George Tiller, who remained one of the nation&#8217;s few providers of late-term abortions through decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,53,24,32,118,21,20,46,6],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crime-and-violence","tag-feckless-democrats","tag-gods-and-monsters","tag-hate","tag-republican-america","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}