{"id":237,"date":"2003-11-05T19:13:30","date_gmt":"2003-11-06T02:13:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-05T19:13:30","modified_gmt":"2003-11-06T02:13:30","slug":"fight-this-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/fight-this-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight This Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few random thoughts on last night&#8217;s &#8220;Rock the Vote&#8221; <a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A64721-2003Nov4.html>&#8220;debate,&#8221;<\/a> which I admittedly watched with a couple of sheets to the wind:<\/p>\n<p>1) My generation could not think its way out of gossamer handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>2) Playing &#8220;The Times They Are A-Changin'&#8221; at youth forum in 2003 = playing Helen Kane at youth forum in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>3) All I can say for Dean, Moseley-Braun, Lieberman, and Sharpton is that they didn&#8217;t stoop to fashion-pandering.<\/p>\n<p>4) Given the <a href=http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~paw\/archive_new\/PAW00-01\/15-0516\/onthecampus.html>historical illiteracy<\/a> of college students, I was surprised to learn that more were interested in Ft. Sumter than in Fallujah.<\/p>\n<p>5) John Edwards&#8217; character was forged in the crucible of fraternity hazing.<\/p>\n<p>6) Despite looking as if he got lost on the way to a <i>Happy Days<\/i> version of a beatnik happening, Dennis Kucinich was the only decent human being on stage. He doesn&#8217;t stand a chance.<\/p>\n<p>7) You&#8217;ll want to have your passport in order by Jan. 20, 2005. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few random thoughts on last night&#8217;s &#8220;Rock the Vote&#8221; &#8220;debate,&#8221; which I admittedly watched with a couple of sheets to the wind: 1) My generation could not think its way out of gossamer handcuffs. 2) Playing &#8220;The Times They Are A-Changin&#8217;&#8221; at youth forum in 2003 = playing Helen Kane at youth forum in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}