{"id":390,"date":"2003-11-11T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=390"},"modified":"2003-11-11T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-12T00:43:15","slug":"a-good-and-just-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A good and just cause&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>hose words came from President Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VOCCFMFUKBZQOCRBAELCFEY?type=politicsNews&#038;storyID=3799640\">while he laid a wreath<\/a> at the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Young Americans have died in liberating Iraq and Afghanistan. &#8230; The loss is terrible. It is borne especially by the families left behind. But in their hurt and in their loneliness, I want these families to know: Your loved ones served in a good and just cause&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>What is exactly a good and just cause? And who gives the president of the US the right to declare the fight in Iraq and Afghanistan a good and just cause?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those words came from President Bush while he laid a wreath at the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Young Americans have died in liberating Iraq and Afghanistan. &#8230; The loss is terrible. It is borne especially &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}