{"id":23,"date":"2007-04-26T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T07:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rad.net.nz\/blog\/archives\/21"},"modified":"2007-04-26T20:49:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T07:49:28","slug":"sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2007\/04\/26\/sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANZAC Day I went to my second ever dawn service, this time in Wellington. I was pleased to some protesters but didn&#8217;t think burning a flag was necessary. They were right that the service was a justification for war &#8211; making violence respectable and OK if it is defend freedom. Interestingly I found this paper among my things today when cleaning out some boxes (seems very apt):<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asc.upenn.edu\/USR\/fcm\/jaar.htm\"> Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Revisiting Civil Religion<\/a>. If that seems interesting maybe these books will too:<\/p>\n<p class=\"img_row\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0521626099?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=r06c-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0521626099\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/213f221dcwl_aa_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=r06c-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0521626099\" style=\"border:medium none!important;margin:0!important;\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0567088774?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=r06c-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0567088774\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/11p2tjj089l_aa_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=r06c-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0567088774\" style=\"border:medium none!important;margin:0!important;\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANZAC Day I went to my second ever dawn service, this time in Wellington. I was pleased to some protesters but didn&#8217;t think burning a flag was necessary. They were right that the service was a justification for war &#8211; making violence respectable and OK if it is defend freedom. Interestingly I found this paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-kiwi-culture","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}