{"id":944,"date":"2006-05-07T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T01:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lets-get-small\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T14:19:52","slug":"lets-get-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lets-get-small","title":{"rendered":"Let’s get small"},"content":{"rendered":"

As it turns out, the United Nations Human Rights Council may not be able to agree that the genocide in Darfur is a violation of human rights, but it was<\/em> able to agree that dwarf-tossing is a violation of human rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Glad we got the important stuff settled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it turns out, the United Nations Human Rights Council may not be able to agree that the genocide in Darfur is a violation of human rights, but it was able to agree that dwarf-tossing is a violation of human rights. Glad we got the important stuff settled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sudan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-fe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":939,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/clooless","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":0},"title":"Clooless","author":"Gil","date":"May 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I think Nina Shea gives George Clooney a little too much, um, credibility in this essay about his cluelessness re:Darfur, but I'm with her on the idea that maybe it's not Bush's fault. 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