{"id":20,"date":"2003-04-04T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2003-04-04T21:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2003-04-04T21:03:31","modified_gmt":"2003-04-04T21:03:31","slug":"which-america-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Which America is this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting truly confused. I read in CNN how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/04\/03\/war.concert.walkout.ap\/index.html\">&#8220;Dozens of fans walk out&#8221; <\/a> of a Pearl Jam concert the other day when Eddie Vetter made some anti-Bush comments. Seems he took a rubber mask of Bush and jammed it down on a mic stand. He also said he supported the troops, they aren&#8217;t the ones who set foreign policy &#8230;<br \/>\nWhat is this binary attitude of folks that if you aren&#8217;t wholly (blindly) for something, if you are the slightest bit critical, you are some kind of evil Satan. <br \/>\nI find it telling that in a concert event where, I would imagine, there are hundreds, if not thousands of fans, the story is about &#8220;dozens&#8221; who walked out offended. People &#8211; this is not a meaningful quantity!  <br \/>\nIts like CNN is trying very hard to drum up excitement over nothing. Must have been a slow day for news &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Click Pix to enlarge!<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/gfx\/haus-pix\/0217backsnow68.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[20]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/haus-pix\/0217backsnow34.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"backyard full of snow\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNote the bench mid-picture that is buried up to the seat!<br \/><a href=\"\/gfx\/haus-pix\/0217digcars68.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[20]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/haus-pix\/0217digcars34.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"cars waist deep in snow\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNote the depth of the snow drifts by the cars <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting truly confused. I read in CNN how &#8220;Dozens of fans walk out&#8221; of a Pearl Jam concert the other day when Eddie Vetter made some anti-Bush comments. Seems he took a rubber mask of Bush and jammed it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=20\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}