{"id":25742,"date":"2011-07-06T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25742"},"modified":"2011-07-06T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:48:29","slug":"flotilla-sinks-figuratively-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25742","title":{"rendered":"Flotilla sinks, figuratively speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greeks were successful in that they kept the Code Pink Sea Hags from killing themselves in an attempt to invade Gaza. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/ustogaza.org\/latest\/july-6th-update-from-the-u-s-boat-to-gaza\/\">they don&#8217;t see it that wa<\/a>y;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now our folks are beginning the journey home \u2013 some will arrive today, some tomorrow and others in the days ahead. Everyone is tired, but their energy is strong! They will share their stories and talk about their experiences in communities everywhere. And they will use this incredible time they shared in Athens as a spring board for further activism and organizing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only hippies would be interested in hearing from other hippies how they failed so spectacularly. And only hippies would continue pouring their money down the dark, gaping bottomless hole that is Code Pink. If their goal is to get supplies to Gaza, they&#8217;ve failed twice. If their goal is to raise more money that they didn&#8217;t earn to make empty gestures, they&#8217;re succeeding, but how does that help anyone except the Sea Hags? In fact, it looks like poor Greek who rented his boat to them might not get it back from his government. And they&#8217;re leaving their Captain behind facing charges from the government. So everyone is a winner!<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, they marched on the Spanish Embassy in Athens so it&#8217;s not a complete waste. Right?<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re worried about the filthy hippie punks who were fasting, their fast ended before it began apparently. They only had to endure two days of banana smoothies and hot dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greeks were successful in that they kept the Code Pink Sea Hags from killing themselves &hellip; <a title=\"Flotilla sinks, figuratively speaking\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25742\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flotilla sinks, figuratively speaking<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,43,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-code-pink","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}