{"id":12477,"date":"2015-06-20T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-america-is-different-america-is-violent\/"},"modified":"2015-06-20T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:40:47","slug":"but-america-is-different-america-is-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-america-is-different-america-is-violent\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But America is different. America is violent. America was founded upon violence, it is addicted to violence, it sanctifies the capacity for violence. The twin original sins of America \u2014 indigenous genocide and African slavery \u2014 have still not been fully owned and confessed. (Government genocide against Native Americans is virtually never mentioned \u2014 mostly because the genocide was so effective.) We keep hoping that someday we can just forget about this sordid past. But we cannot. We cannot because it is still present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/brianzahnd.com\/2015\/06\/an-encyclical-and-a-massacre\/\">An Encyclical and a Massacre<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/azspot.net\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">azspot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But America is different. America is violent. America was founded upon violence, it is addicted to violence, it sanctifies the capacity for violence. The twin original sins of America \u2014 indigenous genocide and African slavery \u2014 have still not been fully owned and confessed. (Government genocide against Native Americans is virtually never mentioned \u2014 mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3ff","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}