{"id":242,"date":"2008-09-20T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T19:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-10-26T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T15:04:42","slug":"sarah-palin-up-close-and-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/20\/sarah-palin-up-close-and-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin, Up Close and Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If any of you have any doubts about the real Sarah Palin, read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2008\/09\/15\/bess\/print.html\">essay<\/a> by David Talbot,  on Salon.com.  I am giving you the link because, according to the message at the bottom of the page on the Salon site, &#8220;Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those who would reply, &#8220;So what?&#8221;, rest assured that there are a whole lot of Americans who vigorously disagree with what Ms. Palin believes.  And no, we are not &#8220;agents of the Devil.&#8221;  And no, we are not going to get into a &#8220;discussion&#8221; with  you, because there are no grounds for a meeting of minds on this topic. Voltaire, one of the great Enlightenment thinkers, was paraphrased by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quote\/35374.html\">S.J. Tallentyre<\/a>, writing &#8220;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.&#8221; You would alter that statement to say, &#8220;I disapprove of what you say and I will kill you because of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shades of the Salem witch trials and the religious persecution that drove our ancestors from Europe to settle on these shores!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any of you have any doubts about the real Sarah Palin, read this essay by David Talbot, on Salon.com. I am giving you the link because, according to the message at the bottom of the page on the Salon <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/20\/sarah-palin-up-close-and-personal\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}