{"id":909,"date":"2004-11-07T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2007-09-14T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T20:47:04","slug":"911-claims-another-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Claims Another Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like everyone else honest enough with themselves to see our country — and our world with it — being torn apart by George W. Bush, Andrew Veal, a 25 year-old employee at the University of Georgia recognized the disaster afoot in Iraq (where as of last night, they’ve officially declared Martial Law in the country<\/a> — more evidence of “catastrophic success”, I guess).<\/p>\n

Veal was an ardent John Kerry supporter and became despondent after Tuesday’s results were announced.<\/p>\n

He travelled to New York City on Friday — home of the world’s worst-ever terrorist attack and a city that voted overwhelmingly in favor of John Kerry to keep them safer in the future — went downtown to the site of 9\/11’s “Ground Zero” and shot himself in the head with a .12-gauge shotgun.<\/p>\n

Newsday<\/i> reported yesterday<\/a> that “Ground Zero remains a top tourist attraction” and that opinions of sight-seers later in the day varied about the latest tragedy to occur there.<\/p>\n

One visitor was quoted as saying “Maybe he felt ineffective…You feel ineffective if you tried and it all failed” speaking of “many New Yorkers who are depressed over this.”<\/p>\n

An East Village artist and registered Democrat suggested the suicide was symbolic, “Obviously, this person was devastated. I can see why he would come here”.<\/p>\n

And from the Right, Bobbie Jensen, a 54 year-old “Republican from Pheonix” was compassionate enough to understand that Bush’s victory must have been troubling to those who dislike him.<\/p>\n

But, Ms. Jensen explained, “You can be upset about the war, about Bush, but this is a sacred place.”<\/p>\n

Apparently, for the compassionately conservative Ms. Jensen, Ground Zero is just an inappropriate place to blow ones brains out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like everyone else honest enough with themselves to see our country — and our world with it — being torn apart by George W. Bush, Andrew Veal, a 25 year-old employee at the University of Georgia recognized the disaster afoot in Iraq (where as of last night, they’ve officially declared Martial Law in the country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66","category-election-2004"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}