{"id":1335,"date":"2005-11-30T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/11\/get_serious\/"},"modified":"2005-11-30T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T19:07:18","slug":"get_serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/11\/get_serious.html","title":{"rendered":"GET SERIOUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In re: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/11\/yeah_the_holoca_1.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Yeah, the Holocaust really happened<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, a reader writes: &#8220;Americans might also remember this is a two-way street.  With secret torture camps spread around Europe, we aren&#8217;t cutting the best figure either.&#8221; In fact, we had the same thought ourselves when posting the item.<br \/>\nWe also had another thought: How come we keep harping on the Holocaust, which happened more than half a century ago, when we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2003\/08\/in_memoriam.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>said so little<\/strong><\/font><\/a> about recent genocides, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwandaproject.org\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>genocide in Rwanda<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, or the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/conscience\/alert\/darfur\/steidle\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>genocide in Darfur<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, or for that matter, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armenian-genocide.org\/genocidefaq.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>genocide of the Armenians<\/strong><\/font><\/a> &#8212; the first Holocaust of the 20th century, if you will &#8212; which we&#8217;ve never mentioned at all?<br \/>\nNo answer, except our own inadequacy.<br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In re: said so little about recent genocides, like the genocide in Darfur, or for that matter, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-lx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}