{"id":10092,"date":"2013-10-14T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10092"},"modified":"2017-02-27T05:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:16:42","slug":"10092","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10092","title":{"rendered":"My Old buddy shakes off my barbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days are worth waking up to. Today was such a day. I learned that my old buddy&#8217;s still reads my blog his protestations to the contrary notwithstanding. All it took was a poke to nudge him into admitting a lurker status. Heck, I&#8217;ll even forgive him for using Fox News as his Internet Home Page. I&#8217;ll let his email speak for itself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harry: <\/p>\n<p>As former (Democratic) Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan reportedly said, you  are entitled to your own opinions, but you aren&#8217;t entitled to your own  facts.  You are even free to depart from reality. <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I haven&#8217;t quit reading your blog.  However, you might  reasonably conclude that I don&#8217;t think that everything that you say, is  nonsense; and you might reasonably conclude that I am not always motivated to  respond to your bigotry and irrationality \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but maybe I&#8217;m being redundant by  using both of those words. <\/p>\n<p>I am cynical about formal education, generally, and not just about &#8220;public  education&#8221;.  So, my inclination to quote from Kodachrome, is not tied to  your criticism of vouchers, as you seem to suggest. <\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Kodachrome words about &#8220;Sweet Imagination&#8221;, do you suppose  that Simon would say that such a perspective is entertained only by boys (and  men) about girls (and women), and that a converse perspective is not entertained  by girls (and women) about boys (and men)?  I suggest that you are the  person who is objectifying, in this instance.  However, as I have  repeatedly suggested, you frequently depart from rationality for the purpose of  promoting your bigotry. <\/p>\n<p>However, we know that you are never &#8220;angry&#8221; and &#8220;unpleasant&#8221;, and we know  that you never generalize or speculate (fantasize?) unfairly about anyone. <\/p>\n<p>[Your Buddy]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days are worth waking up to. Today was such a day. I learned that my old buddy&#8217;s still reads my blog his protestations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20000,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions\/20000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}