{"id":193,"date":"2002-02-06T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-06T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=193"},"modified":"2021-05-16T04:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T08:05:31","slug":"the-american-talib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/02\/06\/the-american-talib\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Talib"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; I guess my local newspaper thinks I&#8217;m stupid.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They keep referring to notorious traitor-in-training John Walker Lindh as the &#8220;American Taliban&#8221;. Apparently they forgot that &#8220;Taliban&#8221; is plural. That&#8217;s why when we were fighting to oust the Taliban our intent was to remove <i>more<\/i> than one person. I guess when the <i>Detroit Free Press<\/i> discussed our attacks against the &#8220;Taliban&#8221; they thought we were using our military might to go after one guy, presumably the Aghani counterpart to this &#8220;American Taliban&#038;#8221. Or maybe Lindh has split personalities (which would explain a lot) and that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s described in the plural.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wouldn&#8217;t it be better though if the <i>Free Press<\/i>, and many other simple-minded news outlets, referred to Lindh as the &#8220;American Talib&#8221;? In this way they&#8217;d not only be correct, they&#8217;d also be less insulting and condescending to their readership.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I guess my local newspaper thinks I&#8217;m stupid.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They keep referring to notorious traitor-in-training John Walker Lindh as the &#8220;American Taliban&#8221;. Apparently they forgot that &#8220;Taliban&#8221; is plural. That&#8217;s why when we were fighting to oust the Taliban &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/02\/06\/the-american-talib\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}