{"id":9219,"date":"2011-05-02T08:10:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:43:13","slug":"troubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/05\/02\/troubled\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3026,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/kirsten.pickard\\\/posts\\\/2026349345205&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/kirsten.pickard\\\/posts\\\/2026349345205&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3027,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/TheLoriest\\\/posts\\\/1939870210296&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/TheLoriest\\\/posts\\\/1939870210296&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3028,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/MikeHarris4\\\/posts\\\/10150172599190248&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/MikeHarris4\\\/posts\\\/10150172599190248&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Prairie and I were watching a movie last night, and so we missed the announcement of the Big News. After the movie, as I scrolled through my Twitter and Facebook feeds, I got more and more disturbed. Not <em>surprised<\/em>, really&#8230;but I just wasn&#8217;t comfortable with most of what I was seeing people post (and was outright offended by some of it, particularly the picture going around of the Statue of Liberty holding Osama&#8217;s bloody head high&#8230;that&#8217;s uncool on <em>so<\/em> many levels, I&#8217;m a little embarrassed to see it popping up <em>multiple times<\/em> in my friend lists).<\/p>\n<p>I just want to take a moment to call out three friends (one of whom I&#8217;ve never even met in person) for making posts more in line with my own feelings on the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Never was a person to celebrate another person&#8217;s death. No matter how heinous they are, that is still a life.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kirsten.pickard\/posts\/2026349345205\" title=\"Facebook: Kirsten: Never was a person to...\">Kirsten<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  OK, here are my feelings on the whole Bin Laden thing: I&#8217;m not comfortable, ethically, with celebrating any death (no matter who died, or how symbolically\/politically loaded it was), but I don&#8217;t feel sorry that he died, and I hope it gives some people a sense of justice or closure. I do think that cheering someone&#8217;s (anyone&#8217;s) murder is really, really low and uncool. Just sayin&#8217;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheLoriest\/posts\/1939870210296\" title=\"Facebook: Lori: OK, here are my feelings...\">Lori<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  So, Osama&#8217;s dead. Given the man was responsible for thousands&#8217; death, and the life-changing misery of their loved ones, there&#8217;s no question I feel justice was done, albeit at 10 freaking years&#8217; remove. But &#8212; solely in my opinion, mind you &#8212; the proper reaction to such for an average American is not to break out Kool &amp; the Gang&#8217;s &#8220;Celebration.&#8221; A grim smile at justice performed, and then moving on with one&#8217;s life.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MikeHarris4\/posts\/10150172599190248\" title=\"Facebook: Mike: So, Osama's dead....\">Mike<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the three of you (and anyone else with similar sentiments that I may not have seen) for helping confirm that I&#8217;m not alone in my reaction to the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just want to take a moment to call out three friends (one of whom I&#8217;ve never even met in person) for making posts more in line with my own feelings on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[13,14,16],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-life","tag-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}