{"id":1824,"date":"2006-10-05T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2006-10-05T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T03:58:00","slug":"waterboarding-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"Waterboarding video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.current.tv\/\">Current TV<\/a>, Al Gore&#8217;s user-generated-content media venture.  And the first thing I saw on it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.current.tv\/network\/pods\/controversy\/PD04399\">a video of a guy paying experts to waterboard him<\/a>.  Holy shit.  <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I&#8217;m disturbed by my dispassion.  This was probably one of those cases.  I should not be resigned about this.  This is something worth marching in the streets over.  Why am I not out there?  Why isn&#8217;t anyone else?<\/p>\n<p>There was an okcupid test about &#8220;what role would you have played in Nazi Germany?&#8221;  It said &#8220;you would think of your old Jewish friends from time to time, be a little sad and wonder what happened to them.&#8221;  And at the time it stung.  As someone who strives and at times sacrifices to avoid groupthink, that definitely stung.  And yet, I wonder how inaccurate it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m too pragmatic to be a paladin.  I will not pit myself against the current, I&#8217;ll just step out of the river.  It&#8217;s a bit sad to think of myself that way, but that&#8217;s the reality of the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out Current TV, Al Gore&#8217;s user-generated-content media venture. And the first thing I saw on it was a video of a guy paying experts to waterboard him. Holy shit. Sometimes I&#8217;m disturbed by my dispassion. This was probably one of those cases. I should not be resigned about this. This is something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waterboarding video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}