{"id":178508,"date":"2018-11-08T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/08\/righteous-burn\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:07:00","slug":"righteous-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/08\/righteous-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Righteous Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Leslie Smith was musing on the nature of human folly on the upcoming 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the end of the First World War:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Instead of wearing a poppy for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Remembrance2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Remembrance2018<\/a> we should wear our shame because as a human race we&#8217;ve learned nothing since 1918.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harryslaststand\/status\/1059795356781821952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It being Twitter, some asshat with the name of Jo Offord took exception, and in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joofford\/status\/1059829405609005056\">since deleted Tweet<\/a>, replied, &#8220;<i>Harry, brave young men died so that idiots like you would have the freedom to spout your rubbish. Be more respectful.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The reply won the internet:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Err, this is a picture of me in 1941 in my RAF uniform.  So as we used to say in the services, Fuck off, Hitler.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Remembrance2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Remembrance2018<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1J9yfWyLEC\">pic.twitter.com\/1J9yfWyLEC<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harryslaststand\/status\/1059830459352469504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7mXsfdM.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7mXsfdM.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a><b><span style=\"font-size: 200%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Boom!!!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Totally owned.<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise that she either deleted, or made private, her Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>No great loss though; the <a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:66uUnfQ9Zh8J:https:\/\/twitter.com\/joofford%3Flang%3Den+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\">Google cache<\/a> indicates that she is a right wing asshole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Leslie Smith was musing on the nature of human folly on the upcoming 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War: Instead of wearing a poppy for #Remembrance2018 we should wear our shame because as a human race we&#8217;ve learned nothing since 1918. \u2014 Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) November 6, 2018 It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,464,367,374,486],"class_list":["post-178508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-good-writing","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}