{"id":8183,"date":"2018-10-27T18:56:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T22:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8183"},"modified":"2018-10-27T18:56:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T22:56:18","slug":"on-the-squirrel-hill-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8183","title":{"rendered":"On the Squirrel Hill shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my Jewish friends and followers:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grieving with you today. I know the neighborhood where Tree of Life synagogue sits &#8211; it&#8217;s a quiet, well-off, slightly Bohemian &#8216;burb with a lot of techies living in it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not Jewish myself, but I figured out a long time ago that any society which abuses its Jews &#8211; or tolerates abuse of them &#8211; is in the process of flushing itself down the crapper.  The Jews are almost always the first targets of the enemies of civilization, but never the last.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not posting to reply only with words.<\/p>\n<p>Any Jew who can get close enough to me in realspace for it to be practical and asks can have from  me free instruction in  basic self-defense with firearms and anti-active-shooter tactics. May no incident like this ever occur again &#8211; but if it does, I would be very proud if one of my students took down the evildoer before it reached bloodbath stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my Jewish friends and followers: I&#8217;m grieving with you today. I know the neighborhood where Tree of Life synagogue sits &#8211; it&#8217;s a quiet, well-off, slightly Bohemian &#8216;burb with a lot of techies living in it. I&#8217;m not Jewish myself, but I figured out a long time ago that any society which abuses its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8183\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the Squirrel Hill shooting<\/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":[6,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","category-politics","category-terror","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8184,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions\/8184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}