{"id":77734,"date":"2012-07-22T21:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T03:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=77734"},"modified":"2012-07-22T21:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T03:09:29","slug":"remembering-chicagos-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=77734","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Chicago\u2019s Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2012\/07\/remembering-chicagos-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Jacobson<\/a> adds a little perspective.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A mass murder like Aurora, Colorado, naturally grabs the headlines and attention, as it should.\u00a0 A presidential recognition of the murders is appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Yet more than twice as many people have been murdered this month in the president\u2019s hometown of Chicago than were killed in the Aurora shooting.\u00a0 They are just statistics for whom there will be no presidential visits or flags flown at half staff.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of them weren&#8217;t white people. Perhaps that made a difference. The Crust always worries a lot more when white people die &#8212; after all, they&#8217;re mostly white people (and their pet black people) &#8212; than when non-white people die, unless there&#8217;s some political juice to be extracted, as in the Trayvon Martin case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Jacobson adds a little perspective. A mass murder like Aurora, Colorado, naturally grabs the headlines and attention, as it should.\u00a0 A presidential recognition of the murders is appropriate. Yet more than twice as many people have been murdered this month in the president\u2019s hometown of Chicago than were killed in the Aurora shooting.\u00a0 They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77736,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77734\/revisions\/77736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}