{"id":1485,"date":"2021-08-10T21:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2021-08-10T21:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:36:05","slug":"what-8-year-old-boy-is-not-guilty-of-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/10\/what-8-year-old-boy-is-not-guilty-of-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"What 8 year old boy is not guilty of blasphemy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

8-year-old boy becomes the youngest person to face the death penalty in Pakistan<\/a> <\/p>\n

There’s an old saying that goes “show me a young man who is not a liberal, and I’ll show you a man with no heart. Show me an old man who is not a conservative, and I’ll show you a man with no brain.” <\/p>\n

As with all sayings like that, it conveys an important message, and it’s a little silly to quibble over how accurate it is. <\/p>\n

Along those same lines, I’d like to propose something like this. “Show me an 8-year old boy who has not committed blasphemy, and I’ll show you a boy who needs to read G. Gordon Liddy.” <\/p>\n

It’s not that I’m a fan of blasphemy, but I am a fan of boys being boys, which means they do scatalogical, disrespectful, not grown up<\/i> things. They jump off the roof with a bedsheet as a parachute. They make rickety ramps out of old wood and ride their bikes over them. They kiss frogs, rip off scabs, tease girls, and frighten their mothers. <\/p>\n

Any regime that would consider charging an 8-year old for blasphemy should be mocked to scorn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8-year-old boy becomes the youngest person to face the death penalty in Pakistan There’s an old saying that goes “show me a young man who is not a liberal, and I’ll show you a man with no heart. Show me an old man who is not a conservative, and I’ll show you a man with … Continue reading “What 8 year old boy is not guilty of blasphemy?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}