{"id":27949,"date":"2026-10-07T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27949"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:08:02","slug":"the-thing-at-the-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27949","title":{"rendered":"The thing at the core"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I saw the terrible wrath of the place, saw it obliterate hundreds of thousands of people with names and ethnicity and religion like mine, knew for certain that there were deep ugly cracks in the bedrock of this thing called &#8220;the free world.&#8221; And yet I believed the cracks could be fixed, that the thing at the core, whatever it was, was salvageable.<\/p>\n<p>Until the fall of 2023. Until the slaughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Omar El Akkad, <em>One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This<\/em>, (New York: <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Alfred A. Knopf<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2025), 23<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the terrible wrath of the place, saw it obliterate hundreds of thousands of people with names and ethnicity and religion like mine, knew for certain that there were deep ugly cracks in the bedrock of this thing called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}