{"id":5709,"date":"2017-03-10T05:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/political-burden-of-proof\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T05:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:23:41","slug":"political-burden-of-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/political-burden-of-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Burden of Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">As contemporary &#39;liberals&#39; become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I call the <em>political burden of proof<\/em>.&#0160; The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so&#0160; morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As contemporary &#39;liberals&#39; become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I call the political burden of proof.&#0160; The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so&#0160; morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","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=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}