{"id":13547,"date":"2016-07-16T18:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:00","slug":"tapas-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2016\/07\/tapas-at-large\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapas at Large: Insubstantial Morsels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 I don&#8217;t understand why, after negotiations with the sniper in the parking garage failed, Dallas police decided to use a bomb to kill the shooter instead of, say, tear gas.\u00a0 I wonder whether the minute-to-minute story will ever be told.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Let&#8217;s pretend for a minute that I could prove that Allah\/God\/Yahweh does not exist.\u00a0 Would such a proof undermine the flimsy rationale for most of our world&#8217;s terrorism, violence and oppression, or would the perpetrators just invent another justification for the inhumanities and indecencies they are already wont to commit?\u00a0 I would say the latter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/beginners-guide-to-animal-wisdom-cover-revised-e1467072598454.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13554\" style=\"width: 265px; border: 1px solid #dadada; margin-top: -5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/beginners-guide-to-animal-wisdom-cover-revised-e1467072598454-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"beginners-guide-to-animal-wisdom-cover-revised\" width=\"265\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/beginners-guide-to-animal-wisdom-cover-revised-e1467072598454-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/beginners-guide-to-animal-wisdom-cover-revised-e1467072598454.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a>\u2022 Animals are smart, a lot smarter than we are.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t have ineffectual politicians telling them where to go to the bathroom and who they may love.\u00a0 No, they simply nip each other now and then, to let each other know who is top dog in the arena.\u00a0 Then, to mark their territory, they piss on a tree.\u00a0 Humans get arrested for pissing on trees.\u00a0 Oh, to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmonywithanimals.com\/ac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the wisdom of an animal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 I don&#8217;t understand why, after negotiations with the sniper in the parking garage failed, Dallas police decided to use a bomb to kill the shooter instead of, say, tear gas.\u00a0 I wonder whether the minute-to-minute story will ever be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2016\/07\/tapas-at-large\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-at-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13547"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28270,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions\/28270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}