{"id":2139,"date":"2008-12-15T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2008-12-17T22:41:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T03:41:40","slug":"more-on-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2139","title":{"rendered":"More on shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2130\">Update on yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7783608.stm\">Today the BBC reports<\/a>: &#8220;An Iraqi official was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the journalist was being interrogated to determine whether anybody paid him to throw his shoes at President Bush.&#8221; Given the stated policies of the current U.S. administration, the word &#8220;interrogated&#8221; could mean what the rest of the world would call torture. <\/p>\n<p>The BBC also reports that the man&#8217;s name is Muntadar al-Zaidi, and they give an English translation of what he shouted at Bush: &#8220;This is a farewell kiss, you dog&#8230; This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special take-home quiz:<\/strong> Who is on the moral high ground here, George Bush or Muntadar al-Zaidi, and why? Ten bonus points for citing verses from both the Koran and the New Testament.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/BushsSole\">Leona&#8217;s selling T-shirts<\/a> (see comments).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update on yesterday&#8217;s post: Today the BBC reports: &#8220;An Iraqi official was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the journalist was being interrogated to determine whether anybody paid him to throw his shoes at President Bush.&#8221; Given the stated policies of the current U.S. administration, the word &#8220;interrogated&#8221; could mean what the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-peace","category-political-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}