{"id":604,"date":"2004-04-01T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/an_apology\/"},"modified":"2004-04-01T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2004-04-01T19:35:10","slug":"an_apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/an_apology.html","title":{"rendered":"AN APOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Viewers of tonight&#8217;s <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/ghosts\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;Frontline&#8221; documentary<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> about the 1994 Rwanda<br \/>\ngenocide will be reminded of &#8220;the world&#8217;s failure to halt the slaughter.&#8221; <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20040401.shtml#74756\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>That&#8217;s what I wrote<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> earlier today. How stupid for<br \/>\nbeing so vague. I owe readers an apology.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I should have said viewers will be reminded of &#8220;the failure of the United Nations.&#8221; I should<br \/>\nhave said they will be reminded of &#8220;the failure of the United States.&#8221; Because that&#8217;s who failed,<br \/>\nnot some entity called &#8220;the world,&#8221; which lets everybody off the hook. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>And now I wonder whether the exhibition of <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.rwandaproject.org\/\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>Rwanda Project<br \/>\nphotos<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>&nbsp;currently in the U.N. lobby, rather&nbsp;than paying<br \/>\ntribute to the Rwanda orphans who took them,&nbsp;is actually an insult. The U.N. doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\ndeserve the right to show those photos.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers of tonight&#8217;s &#8220;Frontline&#8221; documentary about the 1994 Rwanda genocide will be reminded of &#8220;the world&#8217;s failure to halt the slaughter.&#8221; That&#8217;s what I wrote earlier today. How stupid for being so vague. I owe readers an apology. I should have said viewers will be reminded of &#8220;the failure of the United Nations.&#8221; I should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-604","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-9K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}