{"id":1641,"date":"2003-08-04T04:39:45","date_gmt":"2003-08-04T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/excusing-the-inexcusable\/"},"modified":"2003-08-04T04:39:45","modified_gmt":"2003-08-04T11:39:45","slug":"excusing-the-inexcusable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/04\/excusing-the-inexcusable\/","title":{"rendered":"Excusing the inexcusable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tJohn Gilmore, the EFF board member who boarded an international flight wearing a button proclaiming his contempt for authority and was kicked-off, has naturally come under a lot of criticism for his ridiculous, narcissistic stunt. <a title=\"Lawrence Lessig\" href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/\">Lawrence Lessig,<\/a> a fellow EFF board member, gives Gilmore some space on his blog to try and justify himself, which Gilmore uses to dig a deeper hole. Some of <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1391\">the comments are interesting<\/a>, or at least more interesting than Gilmore&#8217;s childish response to his critics, which is nothing more than name-calling.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gilmore, the EFF board member who boarded an international flight wearing a button proclaiming his contempt for authority and was kicked-off, has naturally come under a lot of criticism for his ridiculous, narcissistic stunt. Lawrence Lessig, a fellow EFF board member, gives Gilmore some space on his blog to try and justify himself, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/04\/excusing-the-inexcusable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excusing the inexcusable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-qt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}