{"id":26969,"date":"2009-08-23T19:37:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T19:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/23\/rich-on-conservative-violence\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T19:37:37","slug":"rich-on-conservative-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/rich-on-conservative-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich on Conservative Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I mentioned that there would be an OpEd piece in the New York Times in a couple of days relating recent astroturfing and teabagging activities to a broader, more historical context.  Well, the OpEd is out, and as expected, it is quite good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>The Guns of August<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By Frank Rich<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;IT is time to water the tree of liberty&#8221; said the sign carried by a gun-toting protester milling outside President Obama&#8217;s town-hall meeting in New Hampshire two weeks ago. The Thomas Jefferson quote that inspired this message, of course, said nothing about water: &#8220;The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.&#8221; That&#8217;s the beauty of a gun &#8212; you don&#8217;t have to spell out the &#8220;blood.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/23\/opinion\/23rich.html?_r=1\">Read it here.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I mentioned that there would be an OpEd piece in the New York Times in a couple of days relating recent astroturfing and teabagging activities to a broader, more historical context. Well, the OpEd is out, and as expected, it is quite good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-70Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969"}],"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=26969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}