{"id":17,"date":"2006-09-05T22:22:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-09-06T23:22:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T06:22:53","slug":"friendly-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Friendly fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"355\" height=\"325\" style=\"padding: 14px\" src=\"http:\/\/i98.photobucket.com\/albums\/l260\/leichner\/IMG_5341web1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A strange paradoxical concept. Today again a number of soldiers were killed or hurt by mistake by their allies. Wars are the outcome of decades, sometimes centuries of mistakes. And they themselves create more mistakes. My videos &#8220;here to infinity&#8221; and &#8220;irrepressible&#8221; address this obssessive and repetitive compulsion to try to deal with our mortality and drive for survival by aggressive domination. This latest tragic event will only be a one day headline soon forgotten with the appropriate apology and investigation, only to repeat itself soon enough.  Last year I painted this image trying to capture the instant of the explosion when it may seem beautiful before it turns to horror. This fire is never friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange paradoxical concept. Today again a number of soldiers were killed or hurt by mistake by their allies. Wars are the outcome of decades, sometimes centuries of mistakes. And they themselves create more mistakes. My videos &#8220;here to infinity&#8221; and &#8220;irrepressible&#8221; address this obssessive and repetitive compulsion to try to deal with our mortality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leichner.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}