{"id":9417,"date":"2012-08-26T05:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/26\/to-call-it-an-exaggeration-would-be-an-understatement\/"},"modified":"2012-08-26T05:41:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T05:41:14","slug":"to-call-it-an-exaggeration-would-be-an-understatement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/26\/to-call-it-an-exaggeration-would-be-an-understatement\/","title":{"rendered":"To Call it an Exaggeration Would be an Understatement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There are statements so extreme that to call them exaggerations would be an understatement.&#0160; There are plenty of examples to be found in liberal precincts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;The photo ID requirement is <em>voter suppression<\/em>. It <em>disenfranchises<\/em> minorities, the poor, the elderly.&#0160; It is an <em>onerous<\/em> barrier to voting.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Onerous?&#0160; In Pennsylvania a photo ID can be had free of charge.&#0160; In Arizona it costs a paltry $12 and is good for 12 years.&#0160; If you are 65 or older, or on SS disability, it is free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Are our liberal pals exaggerating?&#0160; Actually it is more like lying.&#0160; It is the willful misuse of language to win at all costs.&#0160; Linguistic hijacking.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are statements so extreme that to call them exaggerations would be an understatement.&#0160; There are plenty of examples to be found in liberal precincts. &quot;The photo ID requirement is voter suppression. It disenfranchises minorities, the poor, the elderly.&#0160; It is an onerous barrier to voting.&quot; Onerous?&#0160; In Pennsylvania a photo ID can be had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/26\/to-call-it-an-exaggeration-would-be-an-understatement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Call it an Exaggeration Would be an Understatement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417","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=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}