{"id":3650,"date":"2010-10-19T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T00:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2010-10-19T16:59:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T00:59:37","slug":"extremists-and-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"Extremists and Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Albuquerque we had dinner with David and Paula B and their friends Paul and Marcia S. We talked about New Mexico and politics and eventually the discussion turned to Muslim extremism.\u00a0 Paul made an interesting point that the Muslim religion generally and the extremists particularly lack a sense of humor or irony.\u00a0 It is a very good point.\u00a0 They seem incapable of laughing at themselves and and take offense when others laugh at them however gently.\u00a0 We all agreed that this lack of humor and irony is shared by true believers everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Albuquerque we had dinner with David and Paula B and their friends Paul and Marcia S. We talked about New Mexico and politics and eventually the discussion turned to Muslim extremism.\u00a0 Paul made an interesting point that the Muslim religion generally and the extremists particularly lack a sense of humor or irony.\u00a0 It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-WS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}