{"id":606,"date":"2005-07-07T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=606"},"modified":"2005-12-10T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T22:20:42","slug":"england-our-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/england-our-england","title":{"rendered":"England Our England"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t really know what I can write about the London bombings. I’ll need to reread Orwell’s England Your England<\/a> essay to see if it says anything that sheds light on how I feel right now. I’ll probably stop by the UK consulate tomorrow, like I did with the Spanish one after the Madrid bombing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know Christopher Hitchens wrote pretty well about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know that Ken Livingstone spoke pretty well about it<\/a>, even if he did sound like he was excusing such violence if it targets are ” presidents or prime ministers.”<\/p>\n

I know that George Galloway remains an idiot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know a lot of people in my life don’t agree about how to deal with what’s happening to the world and to us. Let’s keep talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t really know what I can write about the London bombings. I’ll need to reread Orwell’s England Your England essay to see if it says anything that sheds light on how I feel right now. I’ll probably stop by the UK consulate tomorrow, like I did with the Spanish one after the Madrid bombing. … <\/p>\n

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