{"id":6792,"date":"2004-12-31T20:29:27","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T03:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/31\/not-blaming-the-victim-here-but.html"},"modified":"2004-12-31T20:29:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T03:29:27","slug":"not_blaming_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/31\/not_blaming_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Not blaming the victim here, but …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as a general rule, if the water suddenly recedes very quickly from the shoreline, the thing to do is not <\/em>to go running out into the now-vacant sands<\/a>, wondering what is going on. It’s probably not boding anything good<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I dunno. Maybe it came from growing up in earthquake country, but it seems to me I learned that one a looooong time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just as a general rule, if the water suddenly recedes very quickly from the shoreline, the thing to do is not to go running out into the now-vacant sands, wondering…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","_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-6792","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":135440,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/iron-lungs.html","url_meta":{"origin":6792,"position":0},"title":"Iron Lungs","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Nov-17 10:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Iron Lungs are breathing assistance devices that were used to enable polio victims to survive. 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