{"id":985,"date":"2010-01-01T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T18:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/01\/01\/january-1\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T12:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T18:05:58","slug":"january-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/january-1\/","title":{"rendered":"January 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think that the terrorists haven&#8217;t already won, it must be because you don&#8217;t fly on airplanes. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2239935\/\">Christopher Hitchens asks<\/a> &#8220;Why are we so bad at detecting the guilty and so good at collective punishment of the innocent?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a provoking column in the NY Times that I read many months ago but never got around to linking to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/27\/opinion\/27taylor.html?_r=3&amp;th=&amp;emc=th&amp;pagewanted=all\">End the University as We Know it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y9w8s6l\">Egyptian Muslim<\/a> converted to Christianity, was arrested and tortured before he escaped to Israel <em>on a jetski<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I asked for prayer before I left for Israel. \u00a0 The Lord has been good to answer our prayers. \u00a0 I am feeling much better than before I left. \u00a0 Some cold symptoms persist, but I&#8217;ve been able to teach and feel pretty strong most of the time. \u00a0 I recovered from jetlag probably more quickly than I ever have before. \u00a0 And my memory is pretty good. \u00a0 I was thinking today that a person inside me that has long been asleep has now come back to life. \u00a0 I&#8217;m thankful. \u00a0 The family seems to be doing pretty well too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think that the terrorists haven&#8217;t already won, it must be because you don&#8217;t fly on airplanes. \u00a0 Christopher Hitchens asks &#8220;Why are we so bad at detecting the guilty and so good at collective punishment of the innocent?&#8221; Here&#8217;s a provoking column in the NY Times that I read many months ago but\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/january-1\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}