{"id":42236,"date":"2017-05-20T02:29:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T08:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42236"},"modified":"2017-05-20T02:29:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T08:29:53","slug":"stand-erdogans-assault-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/stand-erdogans-assault-democracy.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stand Up to Erdogan\u2019s Assault on Democracy&#8221;"},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42237\" style=\"width: 589px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Silent_tribute_to_an_American_soldier_at_Carentan_Normandy_France_-_19440617.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42237\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42237\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Silent_tribute_to_an_American_soldier_at_Carentan_Normandy_France_-_19440617.jpg\" alt=\"Carentan memorial\" width=\"589\" height=\"458\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A silent tribute to an American soldier who fell at Carentan, Normandy, France, erected on 17 June 1944. \u00a0Now all is still here, with cows and horses grazing. \u00a0And the Mideast is a mess.<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been watching political developments in Turkey \u2014 among the most fascinating\u00a0places on the planet \u2014 with concern and sadness. \u00a0And I\u2019ve been under-impressed with the response of the United States to those developments:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/447768\/recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-autocratic-regime-america-west-defend-democracy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/447768\/recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-autocratic-regime-america-west-defend-democracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Carentan, Normandy, France<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve been watching political developments in Turkey \u2014 among the most fascinating\u00a0places on the planet \u2014 with concern and sadness. \u00a0And I\u2019ve been under-impressed with the response of the United States to those developments: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/447768\/recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-autocratic-regime-america-west-defend-democracy \u00a0 Posted from Carentan, Normandy, France \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Stand Up to Erdogan\u2019s Assault on Democracy&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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