{"id":33362,"date":"2013-04-28T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/searching-for-the-boston-bombing-narrative.html"},"modified":"2013-04-29T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:33:30","slug":"searching-for-the-boston-bombing-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/searching-for-the-boston-bombing-narrative.html","title":{"rendered":"Searching for the Boston Bombing narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">We don&#39;t know everything we will know about what apparently drove &#8212; and enabled &#8212; the brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings. What little we do know don&#39;t point to any easy answers about how to prevent something like it from happening again, though that hasn&#39;t stopped a slew of people with pre-existing templates for such events from suggesting some.<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/04\/28\/sunday-review\/28BRUNI\/28BRUNI-superJumbo.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/28\/opinion\/sunday\/bruni-the-lesson-of-boston.html?pagewanted=all&#038;_r=1&#038;'>The Lesson of Boston<\/a><br \/>\n                                                In the aftermath of the marathon, there are any number of easy and insufficient answers, but just one inescapable conclusion.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/AJLcsDGmCqo' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#39;t know everything we will know about what apparently drove &#8212; and enabled &#8212; the brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings. What little we do know don&#39;t point to any easy answers about how to prevent something like it from happening again, though that hasn&#39;t stopped a slew of people with pre-existing templates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/searching-for-the-boston-bombing-narrative.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Searching for the Boston Bombing narrative&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45368,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/18\/margies-kitchen-boston-cre.html","url_meta":{"origin":33362,"position":0},"title":"Margie&#8217;s Kitchen: \u00a0Boston Cre&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Sep-14 3:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie's Kitchen: \u00a0Boston Cream Cupcakes http:\/\/t.co\/7RYwyDfi6H #recipe","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24807,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/24\/dear-boston-pd-consult-with-your-it-department-before-discussing-internet.html","url_meta":{"origin":33362,"position":1},"title":"Dear Boston PD: Consult with your IT Department before discussing &quot;Internet&quot;&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Dec-11 11:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Boston PD: Consult with your IT Department before discussing \"Internet\" stuffI mean, this sort of thing just makes you guys look like serious idjits. 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