{"id":3147,"date":"2011-05-03T10:04:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T10:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:40:20","slug":"at-least-one-journalist-and-the-vatican-agrees-with-me-about-he-death-of-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"At least one journalist, and the Vatican, agrees with me about celebrating the death of bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The night the news broke, I posted this &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2011\/05\/good-but-somber-news.html#tp\" target=\"_self\">Good, but somber news<\/a>&#0160;.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review Online &#8211; NRO &#8211; had a similar feeling<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/266162\/honk-if-you-agree-kathryn-jean-lopez\" target=\"_self\">Honk if You Agree<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I appreciate justice, but I can\u2019t break out the champagne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I keep thinking about those who have died in the ten years since 9\/11, serving our country. I keep thinking of those who were murdered at the hands of terrorists.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And that death is never a cause for celebration.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We should always be uneasy about such things<\/p>\n<p>And here&#39;s the Vatican announcement, which I just posted<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2011\/05\/vatican-statement-on-the-death-of-bin-laden.html#tp\" target=\"_self\">Vatican statement on the death of Bin Laden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I noticed that almost everyone celebrating in the streets &#8211; as if their town had just won the World Series &#8211; was young. Which tells me something.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night the news broke, I posted this &#8211; Good, but somber news&#0160;. &#0160;Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review Online &#8211; NRO &#8211; had a similar feeling Honk if You Agree I appreciate justice, but I can\u2019t break out the champagne. I keep thinking about those who have died in the ten years since 9\/11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}