{"id":2565,"date":"2012-09-02T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2012-09-02T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:46:23","slug":"up-against-the-wall-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/02\/up-against-the-wall-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Against the Wall, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a run-in, if you want to call it that, with a good friend, via e-mail.  She is an inveterate political junkie and she sent me an e-mail that that contained a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2012\/08\/22\/pussy-riot-the-unfortunate-dupes-amerikan-hegemony-paul-craig-roberts\/\">post<\/a> by Paul Craig Roberts that referred to America as &#8220;amerika&#8221; and the journalists as &#8220;presstitutes&#8221;.  When I took exception to the tone of Roberts&#8217; post  and wrote that using words like that contributed nothing to my education, she took offense and said that I was full of &#8220;venomous&#8221; anger.  The exchange ended with her promising to remove my name from the list of people she sends e-mail to since &#8220;who knows what kind of a nerve i&#8217;ll hit next time&#8230;hardly worth the reaction&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll go read Eric Hoffer&#8217;s <em>The True Believer<\/em> again.  There is no getting between the truth as true believers see it and any alternative interpretation of events, it seems.  I&#8217;m sick and tired of partisanship, hatred and bigotry and it seems as though that is all I encounter wherever I go these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a run-in, if you want to call it that, with a good friend, via e-mail. She is an inveterate political junkie and she sent me an e-mail that that contained a post by Paul Craig Roberts that referred <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/02\/up-against-the-wall-again\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}