{"id":706,"date":"2009-04-24T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/24\/did-grandpa-use-torture\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:34:00","slug":"did-grandpa-use-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/24\/did-grandpa-use-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Did grandpa use torture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My headline is glib, but the question is sincere:  America has faced plenty of dangerous wars in the past, overcoming Nazis, Commies, Confederate traitors, you name it. <\/p>\n<p>Many of those threats occurred right here on American soil.  Did we need torture to win those fights?<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m setting aside for the moment the question of morality and values.) <\/p>\n<p>If so, how exactly did torturing prisoners help?  (From the vantage point of history, we should have a fairly clear, apolitical view of this.)<\/p>\n<p>If it didn&#8217;t help, why do we need it now?  <\/p>\n<p>So I pose this as a question to all you blog-profs out there:  Anyone know the answer?  What&#8217;s our society&#8217;s track record here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My headline is glib, but the question is sincere: America has faced plenty of dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}