{"id":3723,"date":"2003-04-05T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2003-04-05T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2003-04-05T11:45:15","slug":"gag_gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/05\/gag_gift.html","title":{"rendered":"Gag gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in <a title=\"The Hamilton Collection Lord Bless This Defender of Freedom Figurine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.collectiblestoday.com\/ct\/product\/prdid-912316001.jsp\">a gift that makes you &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First off, not only would any trooper in Iraq positively shudder to be so portrayed, most of them, I suspect, would rather use something like this for target practice.<\/p>\n<p>Second off, while it&#8217;s nice to think that <i>As the brave members of the U.S. military head out to defend our freedom, it&#8217;s comforting to know that each one is sheltered in the loving hands of God<\/i>, theologically speaking, God loves <i>everyone <\/i>on the battlefield, not just brave US soldiers.  And this sort of blanket lionizing of every US soldier over there seems &#8230; well, a bit simplistic.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, imagine if this ad got into the hands of <i>al Jazeera<\/i>?  Our troops would be a lauging-stock &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in a gift that makes you &#8230; First off, not only would any trooper in Iraq positively shudder to be so portrayed, most of them, I suspect, would rather&#8230;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38465,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/4-of-5-stars-to-trooper-4-by.html","url_meta":{"origin":3723,"position":0},"title":"4 of 5 stars to Trooper #4 by &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Aug-13 11:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"4 of 5 stars to Trooper #4 by Noah Chinn http:\/\/t.co\/KK1Zz5zJvv","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":1289,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/31\/deconstruction.html","url_meta":{"origin":3723,"position":1},"title":"Deconstruction","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Jan-02 8:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A look at an unintentionally disturbing underwear ad from the 50s. 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