{"id":768,"date":"2004-05-07T01:55:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T06:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/the-world-gone-soft-an-epidemic-of-apologies\/"},"modified":"2004-05-07T01:55:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T06:55:32","slug":"the-world-gone-soft-an-epidemic-of-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/the-world-gone-soft-an-epidemic-of-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"the world gone soft? an epidemic of apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

bush didn’t start it<\/a>, and you might say he’s not very good at it<\/a>, or even that we don’t know if he’s ‘sorry’ about the whole torturing-prisoners thing or that pictures of torturing prisoners ‘escaped.’ in any case, the very concept of an apology, so alien to the bush administration, seems to be… almost epidemic at the moment. if you ask google news<\/a> right now about the word ‘apology’ you get “about 10,200” hits.<\/p>\n

there’s the bush sorta-apology, of course… and….<\/p>\n

Judge accepts apology for killer’s outburst<\/a>
\nUS apology for Barbados blunder<\/a>
\nAIB offers apology to customers for \u20ac14m overcharge<\/a>
\n‘Denver Post’ Column Stirs Controversy, Apology<\/a>
\nGogarty welcomes Sisters of Mercy apology over abuse<\/a>
\nLinn makes apology for mistakes as county chief<\/a>
\nBAE chief’s outburst leads to apology offer<\/a>
\nZook brings jokes, apology<\/a>
\nSenate Accepts Wabara’s Apology<\/a>
\n‘Aging sex kitten community’ wins apology<\/a><\/p>\n

even the axis of evil is getting in on the act….
\nN Korea’s Kim criticized at home for apology to Japan<\/a><\/p>\n

and thousands (apparently) more… so i have to ask… is this apology thing catching on? is there a rash of responsibility spreading around the planet? or is it just good political cover for everyone to apologize all at once and get back to the business of being justified and righteous?<\/p>\n

are these sincere apologies? any one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

bush didn’t start it, and you might say he’s not very good at it, or even that we don’t know if he’s ‘sorry’ about the whole torturing-prisoners thing or that pictures of torturing prisoners ‘escaped.’ in any case, the very concept of an apology, so alien to the bush administration, seems to be… almost epidemic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}