{"id":251,"date":"2006-10-23T07:50:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=251"},"modified":"2006-10-23T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T14:51:51","slug":"not-just-any-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/not-just-any-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Any Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0610230206oct23,0,1829176.story?page=1&#038;coll=chi-news-hed\">I wouldn&#8217;t want this guy to haul off and punch me!<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>he tapped a Muslim woman on the head, nearly pulling off her headscarf.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Somehow, <i>tapped<\/i> doesn&#8217;t seem to go along with <i>nearly pulling off<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, I&#8217;m intrigued by this: <\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8220;I understood [it was wrong] immediately after I did it. But even after I apologized, she was still so angry,&#8221; he said.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Perhaps the local imam needs to do a little better at teaching forgiveness?<\/p>\n<p>Then I had cause to remember that an American diplomat is saying &#8220;Sorry&#8221; to somebody. I forget to whom he&#8217;s apologizing.<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8220;This represents neither my views nor those of the State Department,&#8221; Fernandez added. &#8220;I apologize.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Not his views? Oh. Maybe he was just quoting an as-yet-unidentified someone else?<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/2006\/10\/23\/sometimes-sorry-just-isnt-enough.php\">Lorie Byrd<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Saying &#8220;sorry&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t cut it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s what the Muslim woman thought whose head got tapped.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t want this guy to haul off and punch me! he tapped a Muslim woman on the head, nearly pulling off her headscarf. Somehow, tapped doesn&#8217;t seem to go along with nearly pulling off. \ud83d\ude42 Be that as it may, I&#8217;m intrigued by this: &#8220;I understood [it was wrong] immediately after I did it. &#8230; <a title=\"Not Just Any Tap\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/not-just-any-tap\/\" aria-label=\"More on Not Just Any Tap\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-43","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}