{"id":3507,"date":"2005-07-29T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T00:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/29\/the-wisdom-of-clarence\/"},"modified":"2005-07-29T17:19:22","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T00:19:22","slug":"the-wisdom-of-clarence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/29\/the-wisdom-of-clarence\/","title":{"rendered":"The wisdom of Clarence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t In <em>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/em> the angel Clarence says that every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. It seems to me that every time an American political partisan lies about Guantanamo, a suicide bomber gets his vest. Given <a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/28\/winning-the-war-on-terror\/\">Juan Cole&#8217;s recent statement<\/a> about jihadi software, I don&#8217;t think this is far from the mark.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life the angel Clarence says that every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. It seems to me that every time an American political partisan lies about Guantanamo, a suicide bomber gets his vest. Given Juan Cole&#8217;s recent statement about jihadi software, I don&#8217;t think this is far from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/29\/the-wisdom-of-clarence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wisdom of Clarence&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Uz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","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=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}