{"id":23944,"date":"2011-01-12T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/george_will_on_the_response_to_the_tucson_tragedy\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T03:00:49","slug":"george_will_on_the_response_to_the_tucson_tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23944","title":{"rendered":"George Will on the response to the Tucson tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be merciful if, when tragedies such as Tucson&#8217;s occur, there were a moratorium on sociology. But respites from half-baked explanations, often serving political opportunism, are impossible because of a timeless human craving and a characteristic of many modern minds.<\/p>\n<p>The craving is for banishing randomness and the inexplicable from human experience. Time was, the gods were useful. What is thunder? The gods are angry. Polytheism was explanatory. People postulated causations.<\/p>\n<p>And still do. Hence: The Tucson shooter was (pick your verb) provoked, triggered, unhinged by today&#8217;s (pick your noun) rhetoric, vitriol, extremism, &#8220;climate of hate&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/10\/AR2011011003685.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be merciful if, when tragedies such as Tucson&#8217;s occur, there were a moratorium on sociology. But respites from half-baked explanations, often serving political opportunism, are impossible because of a timeless human craving and a characteristic of many modern<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23944\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,617,89,616,151,667,129,618,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-house-of-representatives","category-media","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-psychology","category-senate","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}