{"id":2608,"date":"2006-10-22T23:51:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T23:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2006-10-22T23:51:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T23:51:22","slug":"doonesburys_war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Doonesbury&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/20\/AR2006102000446.html?referrer=emailarticle\">Gene Weingarten<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It&#8217;s hard to know what to say to a grievously injured person, and it&#8217;s easy to be wrong . You could do what I did, for example. Scrounging for the positive, I cheerfully informed a young man who had lost both legs and his left forearm that at least he&#8217;s lucky he&#8217;s a righty. Then he wordlessly showed me his right hand, which is missing fingertips and has limited motion &#8212; an articulated claw. That shut things right up, for both of us, and it would have stayed that way, except the cartoonist showed up.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nGarry Trudeau, the creator of &#8220;Doonesbury,&#8221; hunkered right down in front of the soldier, eye to eye, introduced himself and proceeded to ignore every single diplomatic nicety.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;So, when were you hit?&#8221; he asked.<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;October 23.&#8221;<br \/><Br><br \/>\nTrudeau pivoted his body. &#8220;So you took the blast on, what . . . this side?&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Weingarten: It&#8217;s hard to know what to say to a grievously injured person, and it&#8217;s easy to be wrong . You could do what I did, for example. Scrounging for the positive, I cheerfully informed a young man who had lost both legs and his left forearm that at least he&#8217;s lucky he&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,32,33,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}