{"id":634,"date":"2025-09-10T23:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:55:33","slug":"%f0%9f%a4%97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/10\/%f0%9f%a4%97\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83e\udd17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>consider the right to bare arms,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in a bare-armed hug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we hear each other wrong, and it shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>poor transcription does us in, every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>our ancestors bade us: bare arms, and protect your neighbors from harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a well-armed militia will protect us from harm with hugs, with their bare arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>consider the right to bare arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>consider the right to bare arms, in a bare-armed hug. we hear each other wrong, and it shows. poor transcription does us in, every time. our ancestors bade us: bare arms, and protect your neighbors from harm. a well-armed militia will protect us from harm with hugs, with their bare arms. consider the right to &#8230; <a title=\"\ud83e\udd17\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/10\/%f0%9f%a4%97\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \ud83e\udd17\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,27,28,6,26,16,15,9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicle","category-didactics","category-ethos","category-neighborhood","category-personal-narrative","category-poem","category-politics","category-reflection","category-zen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paor1p-ae","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":350,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/11\/respectability-politics\/","url_meta":{"origin":634,"position":0},"title":"Respectability politics","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"June 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"To the many brave voices calling out Peter Coyote's advice regarding peaceful demonstration tactics as representative of an entitled, race- and class-based, and performative nod to respectability politics: I hear you, and I recognize this perspective. 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