{"id":3752,"date":"2003-04-02T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2003-04-02T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2003-04-02T13:35:06","slug":"our_little_girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/02\/our_little_girl.html","title":{"rendered":"Our little girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel complains that MSNBC and Fox are tending to refer to Pfc. Jessica Lynch as &#8220;<a title=\"Dynamist Blog: LITTLE JESSICA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/000059.html\">Jessica<\/a>&#8221; on-air.  If it were Pfc. James Lynch, would they be calling him James? Or Jimmy?<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">But Jessica Lynch is not the little girl who fell down the well. She is a U.S. soldier serving in harm&#8217;s way. If you&#8217;re old enough to be a POW, you&#8217;re old enough to be referred to as &#8220;Private Lynch.&#8221; Even if you&#8217;re female.<\/p>\n<p>Well said.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/008635.php#008635\">InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel complains that MSNBC and Fox are tending to refer to Pfc. Jessica Lynch as &#8220;Jessica&#8221; on-air. If it were Pfc. 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