{"id":3309,"date":"2013-01-14T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2013-01-14T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T01:47:14","slug":"westboro-baptists-face-off-with-anonymous-at-aarons-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/01\/14\/westboro-baptists-face-off-with-anonymous-at-aarons-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Westboro Baptists face off with Anonymous at Aaron&#8217;s service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Westboro Baptist Church (a cultlike single-family church that gets publicity for its extreme religious views by picketing high-profile funerals &#8211; such as those of soldiers returning from fighting overseas &#8211; with the most offensive chants they can muster) declared they would attend and picket Aaron&#8217;s funeral tomorrow.  (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/01\/14\/anonymous_will_defend_swartzs_funeral_from_westboro_baptists\/singleton\/\">Salon<\/a>) I suppose that is a sign that they expected it will generate publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous, which has opposed WBC antics in the past, launched <a href=\"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/PKm921c9\">Operation Angel<\/a> in response: to minimize the impact of such picketing, and help avoid the hounding of people like Aaron in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Westboro Baptist Church (a cultlike single-family church that gets publicity for its extreme religious views by picketing high-profile funerals &#8211; such as those of soldiers returning from fighting overseas &#8211; with the most offensive chants they can muster) declared they would attend and picket Aaron&#8217;s funeral tomorrow. (via Salon) I suppose that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78827,207,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aasw","category-indescribable","category-too-weird-for-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Rn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}