{"id":187926,"date":"2011-01-24T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/24\/russia\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T01:29:00","slug":"russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/24\/russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/41232147\">The bombing<\/a> is clearly a horrible thing, but I don&#8217;t have much to add, though I would suggest that you look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2011\/01\/dead-souls-how-russians-react-to-terror.html\">Mark Ames article on Russian stoicism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian reaction may seem cold, or even heartless, in their reaction, but consider the alternative:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>As appalling as it might seem, let\u2019s remember what America\u2019s far more sentimental reaction to 9\/11 got us: two disastrous wars, tens of thousands of deaths, and the sorts of police-state measures once thought unimaginable. The difference may be more in our sentimentality than in our brutality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By simply soldiering on, and letting it roll off your back, it makes it much more difficult for the Terrorists to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bombing is clearly a horrible thing, but I don&#8217;t have much to add, though I would suggest that you look at Mark Ames article on Russian stoicism. The Russian reaction may seem cold, or even heartless, in their reaction, but consider the alternative: As appalling as it might seem, let\u2019s remember what America\u2019s far &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1003,1033,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-russia","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187926"}],"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=187926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}