{"id":1722,"date":"2009-05-21T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2009\/05\/el_senor_chomsky\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:26:08","slug":"el_senor_chomsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2009\/05\/el_senor_chomsky.html","title":{"rendered":"El Senor Chomsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nails it again with his latest piece of essential writing about the so-called &#8220;core American values&#8221; and &#8220;moral authority&#8221; claimed for and by the United States since its founding: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175073\">&#8220;Unexceptional Americans.&#8221;<\/a> The shorter version with the longer title &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guernicamag.com\/blog\/1046\/noam_chomsky_why_we_cant_see_t\/\">&#8220;Why We Can&#8217;t See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia&#8221;<\/a> &#8212;  is lopped in half, so read the full-length original (including Tom Engelhardt&#8217;s intro). It&#8217;s worth the time.<br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> May 24 &#8212; Here&#8217;s Chomsky&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chomsky.info\/articles\/20090521.htm\">final version<\/a>, posted today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chomsky.info\/\">his Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nails it again with his latest piece of essential writing about the so-called &#8220;core American values&#8221; and &#8220;moral authority&#8221; claimed for and by the United States since its founding: &#8220;Unexceptional Americans.&#8221; The shorter version with the longer title &#8212; &#8220;Why We Can&#8217;t See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia&#8221; &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-rM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","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=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}