{"id":12967,"date":"2014-08-17T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12967"},"modified":"2014-08-17T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T14:08:22","slug":"nytimes-the-scary-the-sad-and-the-just-plain-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12967","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: The Scary, the Sad, and the Just Plain Bizarre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/ferguson-robin-williams-and-the-russian-convoy.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\">The Scary, the Sad, and the Just Plain Bizarre<\/a> by Serge Schmenmann. Re: Ferguson, MO:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A psychiatrist once told me that people tend to focus more on bad news because human beings are genetically wired to identify dangers they should thereafter avoid. If so, people following the rioting in the small Missouri town of Ferguson most likely came away sensing that the danger to avoid was not the rioters, angered by the police killing of an unarmed 18-year-old African-American, but the police confronting the demonstrators, decked out like Marines preparing to retake Falluja.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: The Scary, the Sad, and the Just Plain Bizarre by Serge Schmenmann. Re: Ferguson, MO: A psychiatrist once told me that people tend to focus more on bad news because human beings are genetically wired to identify dangers they &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12968,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions\/12968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}