{"id":1790,"date":"2007-12-21T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T22:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2007-12-22T20:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T03:09:01","slug":"the-blogger-who-would-save-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"The Blogger Who Would Save Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/13\/world\/europe\/13italy.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">What can I learn from this man&#8217;s example?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khunrum emails: &quot;Perhaps you could be the blogger who saves Beverly  Hills. Open your window and&nbsp;howl torah! torah! torah! &quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fred emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Sir, you need to be the voice of your generation.  You need to stand up and write about the malaise, depression and insecurity that Americans today all feel.  It&#8217;s time to stand up and say &quot;I&#8217;m mad as hell and I&#8217;m not going to take it anymore.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there hasn&#8217;t been that much malaise in the U.S. since Carter was booted out of the white house, and even if there were, Americans are not all pissed at the same things.<\/p>\n<p>The left is pissed at Bush, the war, and all things religious, capitalist and moral.<\/p>\n<p>The right is pissed at the irreligious, socialist and immoral.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re not really in the same situation as Italy.  There are no unifying &quot;betes noir&quot; as it were.<\/p>\n<p>All this reminds me of one of my favorite picture postcards.  There is a picture of a demagogue pounding his fist on a lecturn, shouting, &quot;The time for action has passed!  Now is the time for mindless bickering!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>You can always try to fill that role.  <!--adsense--><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can I learn from this man&#8217;s example? Khunrum emails: &quot;Perhaps you could be the blogger who saves Beverly Hills. Open your window and&nbsp;howl torah! torah! torah! &quot; Fred emails: Sir, you need to be the voice of your generation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}