View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And if you feel that being offended requires you to run to the police for assistance, that's probably not a very good sign. Offense is a social act (or a social reaction). It should be addressed through social means, not legal. Embedded Link John Richards of Boston Threatened With Arrest Over "Religions Are Fairy Tales" … Continue reading “With freedom comes the potential to offend”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33706,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/black-is-beautiful-and-fantastic.html","url_meta":{"origin":28384,"position":0},"title":"Black is Beautiful. And Fantastic","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 12-May-13 1:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"I have no problem at all with Johnny Storm being played by a black man ... because his character has nothing to do with race. \u00a0The only thing I'd ask is that, therefore, Sue Storm Richards was also cast with a black actress. Which I would also have no problem\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4865,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/16\/it_is_a_puzzlem.html","url_meta":{"origin":28384,"position":1},"title":"It is a puzzlement","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Dec-03 9:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure someone can explain this all to me, but why would the US Humane Society and the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation, among others, pay to have the deceased Keiko, the...","rel":"","context":"In "ZT & PC"","block_context":{"text":"ZT & PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"Keiko","src":"\/blog\/images\/keiko.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":33362,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/searching-for-the-boston-bombing-narrative.html","url_meta":{"origin":28384,"position":2},"title":"Searching for the Boston Bombing narrative","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 28-Apr-13 11:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"We don't know everything we will know about what apparently drove -- and enabled -- the brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings. What little we do know don't point to any easy answers about how to prevent something like it from happening again, though that hasn't stopped a slew\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128259,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/asteroid-season-volcano-season-asteroid-season-volcano-season.html","url_meta":{"origin":28384,"position":3},"title":"Asteroid Season! Volcano Season! Asteroid Season! Volcano Season!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Oct-15 6:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"It was not a good time to be a dinosaur.'As Richards points out, there\u2019s always going to be an element of mystery when studying Earth\u2019s distant past. Not only did the KT extinction happen a long time ago, the events that triggered it hardly fit into our paradigm of natural\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33190,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/bombing-at-the-boston-marathon.html","url_meta":{"origin":28384,"position":4},"title":"Bombing at the Boston Marathon","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Apr-13 6:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is probably not true, but the only thing worse than whatever motivates someone to commit such a bloody crime is whatever motivates people (left, right, center, askew) to immediately speculate on who \"probably did it\".And, yes, on the assumption that it was not an accidental detonation, then it is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33251,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/guess-we-can-stop-suspecting-dark-skinned-males-for-the-moment.html","url_meta":{"origin":28384,"position":5},"title":"Guess we can stop suspecting\u00a0dark-skinned males … for the moment","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Apr-13 7:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"So everyone makes mistakes in the journalism biz. And when you're dealing with \"sources\" that are passing on what their \"source\" know, and there's time pressure to Make The Announcement First, then mistakes are more likely.So I don't blame CNN all that much for blowing it that there had been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}