{"id":26335,"date":"2017-11-20T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26335"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:53:23","slug":"what-does-one-say-about-this-monsters-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26335","title":{"rendered":"What does one say about this monster&#8217;s death?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26336\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A dear longtime friend of mine sent me a message today, imploring me to &#8220;take a break from politics.&#8221; My friend suggested I should comment on the death of Charles Manson, who croaked overnight in a southern California hospital.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about that for a moment and sent him back this message:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They ought to feed a flock of buzzards with his corpse.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t say this, but I should add that I hope Manson rots in hell for eternity. I am quite certain that&#8217;s where what passes for this individual&#8217;s soul is headed.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I am going to say about this monstrous individual. And please spare me the lecture about how &#8220;in-Christian&#8221; it sounds for me to say these things about someone once called &#8220;the most dangerous man in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I also suggested that a nation that was horrified at the 1969 murders committed at Manson&#8217;s direction should honor the memories of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>They deserve our attention and our prayers as we recall the shocking depravity that all too often consumes the worst of us.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dear longtime friend of mine sent me a message today, imploring me to &#8220;take a break from politics.&#8221; My friend suggested I should comment on the death of Charles Manson, who croaked overnight in a southern California hospital. I thought about that for a moment and sent him back this message: &#8220;They ought to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What does one say about this monster&#8217;s death?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[922],"class_list":["post-26335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charles-manson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26338,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335\/revisions\/26338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}