{"id":1750,"date":"2008-11-10T20:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T00:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2008-11-10T20:02:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T00:02:37","slug":"with-god-on-our-side-2008-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/10\/with-god-on-our-side-2008-version\/","title":{"rendered":"With God On Our Side, 2008 Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nw1f7LTzsd4\">With God On Our Side<\/a> recently reentered my regular music rotation when <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vivianpaige.com\/2008\/11\/08\/with-god-on-our-side\/\">Vivian Paige linked<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/shoreacres.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/06\/with-god-on-our-side-redux\/\">this thoughtful piece<\/a> on the election &#8211; and peculiar reception, by some &#8211; of Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So, of course, it was that song that immediately came to mind today when Boing Boing posted this video of a Greek v. Armenian monk smackdown in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z8g1YFlBX1Y[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7718587.stm\">According to the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dressed in the vestments of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian denominations, rival monks threw punches and anything they could lay their hands on.<\/p>\n<p>The Greeks blamed the Armenians for not recognising their rights inside the holy site, while the Armenians said the Greeks had violated one of their traditional ceremonies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I find<br \/>\nwho-would-win-in-a-fight-between-Superman-and-Spiderman speculation far more useful.\u00c2\u00a0 Alas, folks like these monks prefer the live-action version of that argument.<\/p>\n<p>(I do admit to wondering, though, what would have happened if some Turkish Orthodox monks were rolling by when this went down.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan&#8217;s With God On Our Side recently reentered my regular music rotation when Vivian Paige linked to this thoughtful piece on the election &#8211; and peculiar reception, by some &#8211; of Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So, of course, it was that song that immediately came to mind today when Boing Boing posted this video of a [&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-1750","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\/1750","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=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}