{"id":100,"date":"2010-09-28T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iratecopyeditor.wordpress.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2010-09-28T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:09:08","slug":"the-death-penalty-in-virginia-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"The Death Penalty in Virginia and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/premesso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0433-e12856760331381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-106   \" src=\"http:\/\/premesso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0433-e12856760331381.jpg?w=768\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sakineh: pollice verso?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Discussing study opportunities in the US with my wife&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s 15 year old, he suddenly interrupted his excited line of questioning about the Hard Rock Cafe and eggs for breakfast to ask something more serious: &#8220;Is it true that they execute women there, too?&#8221;  Teresa Lewis&#8217; execution in Virginia (a state that I&#8217;m not exactly from but that I have many associations with) was big news here, and as if to put it in counterpoint, I was reminded of the huge banner stating solidarity with Sakineh that was draped over Verona&#8217;s Roman arena.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas certain European attitudes towards modernity might seem backwards to us &#8212; see Twitter for the Gallic sniff on Chinese work habits &#8212; we must realize that to them, lethal injection in Old Dominion is not much different than a stoning in Iran.  I think we lose of sight of this sometimes as a consequence of our exceptionalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussing study opportunities in the US with my wife&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s 15 year old, he suddenly interrupted his excited line of questioning about the Hard Rock Cafe and eggs for breakfast to ask something more serious: &#8220;Is it true that they execute women there, too?&#8221; Teresa Lewis&#8217; execution in Virginia (a state that I&#8217;m not exactly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Death Penalty in Virginia and Iran&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,30],"tags":[79,108,421,151,194,343,348,365,369,373,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}