{"id":12129,"date":"2009-11-26T06:42:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T06:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/26\/politics-and-religion-over-thanksgiving-dinner\/"},"modified":"2009-11-26T06:42:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T06:42:36","slug":"politics-and-religion-over-thanksgiving-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/26\/politics-and-religion-over-thanksgiving-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Religion Over Thanksgiving Dinner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here is a dilemma some of you will face. You are eating dinner with relatives, and one of the merry crew displays signs of&#0160;Palin Derangement Syndrome.&#0160;If you are a conservative, what do you do? Sit there and listen to the drivel? Or stand up for what&#39;s right? Start a food fight, literally or figuratively?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It&#39;s a dilemma in the strict, as opposed to the Dr. Laura, sense of the term: a situation in which there are exactly two alternatives, both of which are unacceptable. If you let the cretin escape, you do truth and justice a disservice. But if you oppose him or her, then you may ruin the conviviality of the occasion &#8212; to put it mildly.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">You will have to work this out for yourself. The problem won&#39;t arise for me. My dinner party will consist of me, my wife, and my cat<\/font><font face=\"Georgia\">. Any offensive opinions will emanate from the television, against which I will be well-armed: fork in one hand, remote control in the other.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a dilemma some of you will face. You are eating dinner with relatives, and one of the merry crew displays signs of&#0160;Palin Derangement Syndrome.&#0160;If you are a conservative, what do you do? Sit there and listen to the drivel? Or stand up for what&#39;s right? Start a food fight, literally or figuratively? It&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/26\/politics-and-religion-over-thanksgiving-dinner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics and Religion Over Thanksgiving Dinner?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}