{"id":11739,"date":"2025-02-24T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/the-new-dark-ages\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:21:05","slug":"the-new-dark-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/the-new-dark-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Dark Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Dark Ages<br \/>\nI am alone in thinking that the humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan is bringing out the worst in Americans. If I have to fight one more person over a \u201cserves them right\u201d comment, I swear I\u2019ll give up and leave this country. These are human beings \u2013 have you seen the pictures of those thousands of little kids and old people totally disorientated, having lost every possession \u2013 caught up in one of the worst man-made crises in the world, and all you can say is it\u2019s good enough for them. That really sets us as a people back in the same dark ages that those rulers of Afghanistan have obviously never left) and puts us up there next to the bad guys we quite rightly condemn out of hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Dark Ages I am alone in thinking that the humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan is bringing out the worst in Americans. If I have to fight one more person over a \u201cserves them right\u201d comment, I swear I\u2019ll give up and leave this country. These are human beings \u2013 have you seen the pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}