{"id":1241,"date":"2006-01-04T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T20:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2006-01-04T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T20:20:45","slug":"the-mine-disaster-before-i-embark-on-a-media-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"The Mine Disaster (Before I Embark on a Media Fast)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was channel-surfing last night about 1:00 MST when I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\">CNN<\/a> telling that they were wrong and 12 of the 13 miners had died.\u00c2? Apparently, some idiot had called the church where the families and governor and VIP&#8217;s were and had said that they had survived, so&#8230; the families get euphoric news and are then told the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To the head of the Sago Mining Company:<\/strong> I really hope this situation forces you to step down or the board of directors fires your @$$.\u00c2? You *knew* the mine was dangerous and you still kept it open.\u00c2? I pray that criminal charges are filed against you personally.<br \/>\n<strong>To the absolute moron who called with the incorrect news and got people&#8217;s hopes up: <\/strong>If you&#8217;re part of Sago, I hope you&#8217;re fired and your pension is used for counselling for the people who you just seriously wounded.\u00c2? I hope that you are never hired by anyone for PR again and that your name is associated with the word &#8220;incompetence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To the idiots in the media who were trying to &#8220;get the story&#8221; last night and shoved your microphone in the faces of seriously grieving people:<\/strong> You guys are morons and obviously have no shred of compassion.\u00c2? I hope that the next time your family members are tragically killed, someone shoves a microphone in your face so that you know how it feels.<\/p>\n<p>I posted prayers on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs4god.com\">blogs4God<\/a> last night. Go read them and pray for the families and for the community.<\/p>\n<p>With this, I am now embarking on a media fast of all things mine-related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was channel-surfing last night about 1:00 MST when I stumbled upon CNN telling that they were wrong and 12 of the 13 miners had died.\u00c2? Apparently, some idiot had called the church where the families and governor and VIP&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-k1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}