{"id":12538,"date":"2012-12-14T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2012-12-14T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:36:57","slug":"evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/14\/evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323297104578179271453737596.html\" target=\"_blank\">murdering a room full of kindergarteners<\/a> a few days before Christmas is a great an evil as human beings are capable of.<\/p>\n<p>I want to feel sympathy, and empathy, for the poor children, their parents, their schoolmates, and everyone harmed by the bastard who did this thing. I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s dead. I wish his evil could be buried with him &#8212; and a stake driven through its heart.<\/p>\n<p>But we all know that a greater evil is very much alive &#8212; and filled with glee. We all know there&#8217;s worse to come. And it&#8217;s going to come (as usual) for our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you even feel what one decent human being should feel toward suffering others &#8212; when over the bodies of the dead you can already see the political vultures circling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to believe that murdering a room full of kindergarteners a few days before Christmas is a great an evil as human beings are capable of. I want to feel sympathy, and empathy, for the poor children, their parents, their schoolmates, and everyone harmed by the bastard who did this thing. I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s dead. I wish his evil could be buried with him &#8212; and a stake driven through its heart. But we all know that a greater evil is very much alive &#8212; and filled with glee. We all know there&#8217;s worse to come. And it&#8217;s going&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/14\/evil\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evil<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}