{"id":19097,"date":"2010-04-08T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/robert_wright_why_tiger_matters\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:50:45","slug":"robert_wright_why_tiger_matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19097","title":{"rendered":"Robert Wright: Why Tiger Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I want to defend the proposition that, in its own way, the Tiger Woods scandal is as important as Kandahar and the Catholic Church. Leaving aside the question of whether we should shower condemnation on Woods \u201d\u201d a hard question that I don\u2019t purport to have a compelling answer to \u201d\u201d one thing I feel sure of is that this Tiger Woods thing matters.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because it embodies some other things that matter. For example:<\/p>\n<p>1) Monogamous marriage matters&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>2) Monogamous marriage matters especially in parts of society where it is weakest&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>3) Role models matter&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>4) Role models matter for adults, kind of&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>5) Moral sanction matters&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/06\/why-tiger-matters\">Read it carefully and read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I have scrupulously avoided this topic because it sickens me, among many other reasons.  But it does matter. Comments on this thread will be carefully watched, however.  This is not an opportunity to get off topic, please. This is a chance to interact with a column and its specific arguments&#8211;KSH<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to defend the proposition that, in its own way, the Tiger Woods scandal is as important as Kandahar and the Catholic Church. Leaving aside the question of whether we should shower condemnation on Woods \u201d\u201d a hard question<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19097\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,168,98,128,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-sports","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}