{"id":2178,"date":"2007-04-18T01:07:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T05:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/postponed\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T01:07:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T05:07:22","slug":"postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the Imus-inspired, heart-searching national dialog on race relations that the chattering class promised us will resume in a few days.  Or maybe not.  <em>American Idol<\/em> is still going, isn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nFor the time being, MSNBC has short profiles on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18143312\/\">VA Tech shooting victims<\/a>.<br \/>\nTalk Left sensibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2007\/4\/17\/1945\/93121\">points out<\/a> that now is not the time to debate gun policy.  I agree.  I&#8217;ve grown weary of news programs filling air time with silly gun control arguments.  Sure, there&#8217;s a time to debate firearms, but it isn&#8217;t now.  The discussion is too colored by this isolated incident.  Wait until things cool off and we again have a broader perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/postponed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Postponed\"><p>Perhaps the Imus-inspired, heart-searching national dialog on race relations that the chattering class promised us will resume in a few days. Or maybe not. American Idol is still going, isn&#8217;t it? For the time being, MSNBC has short profiles on the VA Tech shooting victims. Talk Left sensibly points out that now is not the [&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-2178","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\/2178","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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}