{"id":216,"date":"2021-01-12T02:05:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelschester.net\/?p=216"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:05:54","slug":"taking-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Taking sides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hmm, let&#8217;s compare events. The fight against systemic racism vs.: sedition, premeditated violent insurrection in support of baseless claims made by a morally bankrupt leader in psychosis, chants of &#8216;hang Mike Pence&#8217; with a gallows erected, zip cuffs for taking prisoners, pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, flash-bang grenades, pepper spray, riot gear, onions to offset deterrent sprays, superhero\/fantasy costumes (because I don&#8217;t really know what to call that fashion choice).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotta say, I&#8217;m siding with the progressive left on this one, bud. I choose the quiet heroism of a Stacey Abrams vs. cowards who come from a tradition of suppressing votes, burning crosses and hiding behind white hoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, let&#8217;s compare events. The fight against systemic racism vs.: sedition, premeditated violent insurrection in support of baseless claims made by a morally bankrupt leader in psychosis, chants of &#8216;hang Mike Pence&#8217; with a gallows erected, zip cuffs for taking prisoners, pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, flash-bang grenades, pepper spray, riot gear, onions to offset deterrent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}