{"id":1832,"date":"2003-12-16T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2003-12-16T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T18:41:00","slug":"commemorating-wmds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/12\/16\/14\/41\/commemorating-wmds\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating WMDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fintan emailed me a nice parallel concerning the display of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=enola.gay+smithsonian\">Enola Gay in a US national museum<\/a>. Apparently this airplane has no distinguishing features aside from the fact that it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;q=hiroshima+war.crime\">conveyed the first atomic bomb<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;q=hiroshima+legality\">that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, his point is that for USians to understand how this strikes many people, imagine if sometime around 2050 Al Qaida was to pay for a monument to be erected in Saudia Arabia to commemorate the airplanes that struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fintan emailed me a nice parallel concerning the display of the Enola Gay in a US national museum. Apparently this airplane has no distinguishing features aside from the fact that it conveyed the first&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}