{"id":51,"date":"2007-01-23T09:35:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/51"},"modified":"2008-02-14T04:12:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T09:12:12","slug":"a-day-late-and-an-issue-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/51","title":{"rendered":"A Day Late and an Issue Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday was <a href=http:\/\/www.bushvchoice.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/check_out_all_t.html>Blog for Choice Day<\/a>, and I missed it.   That in itself wouldn&#8217;t be so bad, but I just happened to write <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/50>a flattering post<\/a> about <a href=http:\/\/ontheissues.org\/2008\/Chuck_Hagel_Abortion.htm>a pro-life Republican<\/a> that day, so it hurts all the more.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the millions of other pro-choice blogs out there covered the issue pretty well without me, and as always, <em>The Onion<\/em> <a href=http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/33680?issue=4227&#038;special=1999>makes the point<\/a> as well as anyone.  So I don&#8217;t really have much more to add to the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing I&#8217;ve never understood is people who call themselves &#8220;pro-life&#8221; who support the death penalty.  I mean, if we respect human life, doesn&#8217;t that mean all human lives, regardless of whether or not they share our respect for it?  Isn&#8217;t respect for life more about how we act than it is about what they deserve?  <\/p>\n<p>Feel free to disagree, but then let&#8217;s knock off the &#8220;culture of life&#8221; rhetoric.  <\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains <a href=http:\/\/www.tdcj.state.tx.us\/stat\/executedoffenders.htm>a website of all of their executed offenders<\/a>, including name, crime, and last statement.  It&#8217;s a chilling collection, and is almost certain to reinforce whatever beliefs you already have about the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p><!--be96831b8ee549c68675a329ac95d5b1--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday was Blog for Choice Day, and I missed it. That in itself wouldn&#8217;t be so bad, but I just happened to write a flattering post about a pro-life Republican that day, so it hurts all the more. I guess the millions of other pro-choice blogs out there covered the issue pretty well without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-politics","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}