{"id":184776,"date":"2012-01-23T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/23\/sarko-gets-one-right\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:34:00","slug":"sarko-gets-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/23\/sarko-gets-one-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarko Gets One Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/01\/23\/us-france-turkey-genocide-idUSTRE80M28G20120123\">passed a law making it illegal to deny the existence of the Armenian Genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t approve laws forbidding speech, but I <b>DO<\/b> approve of pushing back on the Turkish aggressive policy of denial and disinformation regarding historical fact.<\/p>\n<p>The cynic in me thinks that Nicolas Sarkosy was motivated by the political calculus that bashing Turks would sell with the Neanderthal set in the upcoming election though.<\/p>\n<p>One final note:&nbsp; Serdar Argic, eat my shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French have passed a law making it illegal to deny the existence of the Armenian Genocide. I don&#8217;t approve laws forbidding speech, but I DO approve of pushing back on the Turkish aggressive policy of denial and disinformation regarding historical fact. The cynic in me thinks that Nicolas Sarkosy was motivated by the political &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,984,1011,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-europe","category-history","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184776"}],"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=184776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}