{"id":2257,"date":"2011-05-02T22:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2011-05-02T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T02:20:18","slug":"monday-night-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/05\/02\/monday-night-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night – reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diane woke me this morning with the news of Osama Bin Ladin’s death. I lay there for a few minutes trying to take that in.. how did I\u00a0 feel ? Good ? Bad.. Relieved ? Fearfull ? .. I guess a little of all of those things..<\/p>\n

It was not until I went downstairs and started reading about other peoples reactions that my reaction began to change.. When I saw that people were celebrating Bin Ladin’s death I was deeply saddened.. not because I had compassion for him. but because no-one should celebrate another’s death. No matter how evil. Justice is important.. and Bin Ladin certainly deserved justice. He destroyed many peoples lives in support of his own ideology.\u00a0 I know that he was a dangerous man who used violence to promote his cause..The world is no doubt better off with out him.., .. But justice is one thing..and vengeance is another. Vengeance s a dangerous and poisonous emotion…Believe me I understand the anger behind a senseless death.. but this is not a time for celebrating.. it’s a time for closure.. for thinking.. and for coming together\u00a0 to work for peace and justice….<\/p>\n

I know many reading this will not agree with me..\u00a0 and I don’t mean to condemn anyone for how they feel.. I just need to let folks know how I feel.<\/p>\n

nite all.. lets work for peace, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diane woke me this morning with the news of Osama Bin Ladin’s death. I lay there for a few minutes trying to take that in.. how did I\u00a0 feel ? Good ? Bad.. Relieved ? Fearfull ? .. I guess a little of all of those things.. It was not until I went downstairs and … Continue reading Monday night – reaction<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-reaction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}