{"id":1438,"date":"2014-12-02T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2014\/12\/lessons-from-ferguson.html"},"modified":"2014-12-02T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T06:40:00","slug":"lessons-from-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2014\/12\/lessons-from-ferguson.html","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2014\/11\/30\/lowry_on_lessons_from_ferguson_dont_rob_a_store_and_assault_a_police_officer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">By Rich Lowry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t rob convenience stores.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t push around minimum wage workers (usually the most important people in the world, but strangely irrelevant in this case)<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t assault police officers.<\/li>\n<li>When a police officer pulls his gun and tells you to stop, then stop. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seems pretty simple. \u00a0Yet young people say they can\u2019t do the right thing without being assaulted by police. \u00a0So by the right thing, I\u2019m to assume they mean plenty of the above? <\/p>\n<p>Again, remember those old time mobs and masses we used to scoff at? \u00a0See the local news to learn how they happen. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rich Lowry. 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