{"id":4538,"date":"2006-06-09T22:33:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:20:58","slug":"nine_mexican_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"Nine Mexican martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up on this on Amy Welborn&#8217;s weblog, Open Book. There&#8217;s a link to Open Book on my skimpy blogroll to the right of this posting.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason I thought of the thug Zarqawi, proclaimed a &quot;martyr&quot; on the Al Queda website, and his so-called &quot;spiritual advisor&quot; (what was he doing &#8211; advising him about Moloch?). And the juxtaposition with these nine young men killed in the Mexican persecutions in the 1920&#8217;s.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/news_services\/liturgy\/saints\/ns_lit_doc_20051120_anacleto-gonzalez_en.html\">Jos\u00e9 Anacleto G\u00f3nzalez Flores and eight Companions &#8211; biography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up on this on Amy Welborn&#8217;s weblog, Open Book. There&#8217;s a link to Open Book on my skimpy blogroll to the right of this posting. For some reason I thought of the thug Zarqawi, proclaimed a &quot;martyr&quot; on the Al Queda website, and his so-called &quot;spiritual advisor&quot; (what was he doing &#8211; advising [&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-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9689,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/9689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}