{"id":763,"date":"2008-04-16T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/04\/being-5-you-try-harder.html"},"modified":"2008-04-16T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:12:00","slug":"being-5-you-try-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/04\/being-5-you-try-harder.html","title":{"rendered":"Being #5 You Try Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alert reader Kim sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080416\/ts_nm\/usa_execution_court_dc_5\">news that the U.S.A. ranks 5th in the world for executions<\/a>, behind China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.  Presumably if you added in the people we killed abroad as opposed to just those we kill domestically, we&#8217;d rank a lot higher.  I&#8217;m surprised really.  The Bush Administration is usually masterful at recasting statistics so they shine favorably on their policies.  And we all now how important victory is to them.  Geeze&#8230; 5th place&#8230; I mean&#8230; c&#8217;mon already!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alert reader Kim sends us news that the U.S.A. ranks 5th in the world for executions, behind China, Iran, Saudi<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/04\/being-5-you-try-harder.html\" title=\"Read Being #5 You Try Harder\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}