{"id":12365,"date":"2009-09-29T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T13:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/29\/a-c-grayling-on-the-roman-polanski-statutory-rape-case\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T13:21:42","slug":"a-c-grayling-on-the-roman-polanski-statutory-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/29\/a-c-grayling-on-the-roman-polanski-statutory-rape-case\/","title":{"rendered":"A. C. Grayling on the Roman Polanski Statutory Rape Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I find myself in complete agreement with <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/guest_contributors\/article6852996.ece\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Professor Grayling&#39;s commentary<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> on the Polanski case.&#0160; Read it carefully; he makes several important points.&#0160; What is astonishing to me, however, is how this man can be so sane and judicious on this topic, and yet such a&#0160;blithering gasbag of a lunatic when it comes to religion, as I document&#0160;&#0160;<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/02\/is-religious-instruction-child-abuse-is-religion-the-greatest-social-evil.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">.&#0160; There is something I call topical insanity, and Grayling on religion is an example of it. Sometimes otherwise sane people simply &#39;lose it&#39; when it comes to certain topics.<\/font>&#0160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself in complete agreement with Professor Grayling&#39;s commentary on the Polanski case.&#0160; Read it carefully; he makes several important points.&#0160; What is astonishing to me, however, is how this man can be so sane and judicious on this topic, and yet such a&#0160;blithering gasbag of a lunatic when it comes to religion, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/29\/a-c-grayling-on-the-roman-polanski-statutory-rape-case\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A. C. Grayling on the Roman Polanski Statutory Rape Case&#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":[8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365","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=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}