{"id":519,"date":"2007-12-02T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2007-12-02T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T13:52:34","slug":"via-crucis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Via crucis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Huckabee, bass-playing former Governor of Arkansas and actual Republican Presidential candidate, found another use for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/blogs\/arkansasblog\/2007\/11\/joking_about_jesus.aspx\">Jesus on the cross<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>&#8221;Interestingly enough, if there was ever an occasion for someone to have argued against the death penalty, I think Jesus could have done so on the cross and said, &#8216;This is an unjust punishment and I deserve clemency.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not an argument for capital punishment, but for <strong>unjust<\/strong> capital punishment, unless, of course, Jesus was guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Huckabee, bass-playing former Governor of Arkansas and actual Republican Presidential candidate, found another use for Jesus on the cross: >&#8221;Interestingly enough, if there was ever an occasion for someone to have argued against the death penalty, I think Jesus could have done so on the cross and said, &#8216;This is an unjust punishment and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Via crucis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inexplicable","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}