{"id":3624,"date":"2012-11-19T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T23:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2012-11-19T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T23:57:58","slug":"dispatch-from-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3624","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch From Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate columnist Dahlia Lithwick describes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/dispatches\/2012\/11\/israel_gaza_fighting_what_s_it_s_like_to_be_in_jerusalem_as_the_conflict.html\">current mood in Israel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You want to hear about what it\u2019s like here? It\u2019s fucking sad. Everyone I know is sad. My kids don\u2019t care who started it and the little boys in Issawiya, the Arab village I see out my window, don\u2019t care much either. I haven\u2019t met a single Israeli who is happy about this. They\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/foreigners\/2012\/11\/benjamin_netanyahu_s_decision_to_bomb_hamas_militants_in_gaza_will_leave.html\">know this fixes nothing<\/a>. The one thing we learned this week is how quickly humans can come to normalize anything. But the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/raisingyoni.com\/2012\/09\/29\/your-country-and-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">hopelessness seeps right into your bones<\/a>\u00a0as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of her essay is worth a read. I don&#8217;t have anything insightful to add, other than to express hope that both sides can find a way to end the violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate columnist Dahlia Lithwick describes the current mood in Israel: You want to hear about what it\u2019s like here? It\u2019s fucking sad. Everyone I know is sad. My kids don\u2019t care who started it and the little boys in Issawiya, the Arab village I see out my window, don\u2019t care much either. I haven\u2019t met <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3624' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-uncategorized","category-16-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3626,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}