{"id":35740,"date":"2016-08-31T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35740"},"modified":"2016-08-30T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T13:02:36","slug":"i-think-colby-cosh-has-nailed-this-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/i-think-colby-cosh-has-nailed-this-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"I think Colby Cosh has nailed this explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This isn\u2019t hard. The US used to reward military service with political patronage and with social services that are now deemed human rights.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/status\/770476495827533824\">August 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The more military service is regarded, is rewarded, &amp; functions like an ordinary job, the more bogus social deference veterans must be shown<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/status\/770476861113692160\">August 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The unctuous (and, by vets, widely loathed) \u201cThank you for your service\u201d is a way of saying \u201cSorry the VA is basically inferior Obamacare\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/status\/770477074696069121\">August 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s why Americans are sensitive about the military. When you see sensitivity, look for the bad conscience. Universal rule.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/status\/770477244598935552\">August 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t hard. The US used to reward military service with political patronage and with social services that are now deemed human rights. &mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) August 30, 2016 The more military service is regarded, is rewarded, &amp; functions like an ordinary job, the more bogus social deference veterans must be shown &mdash; Colby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[424,244],"class_list":["post-35740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-usa","tag-morality","tag-publichealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9is","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35741,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35740\/revisions\/35741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}