{"id":312,"date":"2004-09-10T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T11:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2004-09-10T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T11:17:40","slug":"senseless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Senseless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had wanted to write that I was feeling all chirpy and happy when I left home and was walking towards the bus stop. I mean, I really was feeling on top of the world. Morning was just beginning to break, the air was still quite fresh and the roads hadn&#8217;t gotten too busy yet and it&#8217;s Friday after all! Plus I&#8217;m wearing a new top I bought two weeks ago!  But as I listened to the radio, the day&#8217;s news put a dampener on my spirits. Another bombing&#8211;this time in Jakarta, outside the Australian embassy. Just a week ago, the world was still reeling in shock over the horrific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/chechnya\/0,2759,180787,00.html\">bombing<\/a> of the school in Beslan, Russia. It&#8217;s just appalling&#8230;.all these violence and senseless killing of innocent civilians.<br \/>\nGo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/indonesia\/Story\/0,2763,1301450,00.html\">here<\/a> for a report by The Guardian.<br \/>\nGo <a href=\"http:\/\/straitstimes.com.sg\/commentary\/story\/0,4386,271833,00.html?\">here<\/a> to read today&#8217;s editorial column of The Straits Times. There are also links to related articles that appear in today&#8217;s papers. They&#8217;re worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had wanted to write that I was feeling all chirpy and happy when I left home and was walking towards the bus stop. I mean, I really was feeling on top of the world. Morning was just beginning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}