{"id":1002,"date":"2008-07-07T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T13:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2008-07-07T09:40:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T13:40:02","slug":"speaking-ill-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/07\/speaking-ill-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Ill of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Helms&#8217; death &#8211; and the almost obscene post-mortem spinning of his life, from some corners (including the White House) &#8211; gave rise to many conversations over the appropriateness of describing Helms as he was.\u00c2\u00a0 Generally predictable in their course, I don&#8217;t think me rehashing those conversations here will do any good.\u00c2\u00a0 One thing I *did* get out of it was being pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/thompson02212005.html\">this obituary for Richard Nixon<\/a> by Hunter S. Thompson.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea how I ever missed that, but I did.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re one who doesn&#8217;t get the vapors over refusing to depart from reality just because someone is dead, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/thompson02212005.html\">check it out<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And if you are?\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/thompson02212005.html\">Definitely check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Helms&#8217; death &#8211; and the almost obscene post-mortem spinning of his life, from some corners (including the White House) &#8211; gave rise to many conversations over the appropriateness of describing Helms as he was.\u00c2\u00a0 Generally predictable in their course, I don&#8217;t think me rehashing those conversations here will do any good.\u00c2\u00a0 One thing I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}