{"id":1587,"date":"2005-04-19T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/moments_of_sile\/"},"modified":"2005-04-19T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T14:11:22","slug":"moments_of_sile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/moments_of_sile\/","title":{"rendered":"Moments of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was flipping through the news channels as they were covering the Oklahoma City bombing memorial service.  The ceremony included 168 seconds of silence for the victims.  I flipped over to Fox News and the anchor was jabbering through 70% of the silence time.<br \/>\nKind of defeats the purpose of the coverage, doesn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nI guess if you really want to watch these events, you should watch C-SPAN anyway.  You&#8217;re much less likely to be subjected to some windbag making up stuff about how &#8220;hopeful&#8221; a city is.<br \/>\nAnyway, best wishes to those remembering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org\/\">victims of the bombing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/moments_of_sile\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Moments of Silence\"><p>I was flipping through the news channels as they were covering the Oklahoma City bombing memorial service. The ceremony included 168 seconds of silence for the victims. I flipped over to Fox News and the anchor was jabbering through 70% of the silence time. Kind of defeats the purpose of the coverage, doesn&#8217;t it? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}