{"id":26407,"date":"2009-04-25T12:56:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/25\/freed-hostage-takes-exception\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:56:48","slug":"freed-hostage-takes-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/25\/freed-hostage-takes-exception\/","title":{"rendered":"Freed Hostage Takes Exception to Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s Racist Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nShane Murphy, second-in-command aboard the ship seized by Somali pirates this month, is happy to be home. But he&#8217;s not happy to be sharing turf with land-lubber Rush Limbaugh, who politicized the pirate affair by referring to the pirates as &#8220;black teenagers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels great to be home,&#8221; said Murphy in an interview with WCBV in Boston. &#8220;It feels like everyone around here has my back, with the exception of Rush Limbaugh, who is trying to make this into a race issue&#8230;that&#8217;s disgusting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/24\/shane-murphy-freed-pirate_n_191290.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Murphy, second-in-command aboard the ship seized by Somali pirates this month, is happy to be home. But he&#8217;s not happy to be sharing turf with land-lubber Rush Limbaugh, who politicized the pirate affair by referring to the pirates as &#8220;black teenagers.&#8221; &#8220;It feels great to be home,&#8221; said Murphy in an interview with WCBV &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/25\/freed-hostage-takes-exception\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freed Hostage Takes Exception to Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s Racist Remarks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6RV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}