{"id":9184,"date":"2008-10-22T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_email_bag_ii\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T18:03:20","slug":"from_the_email_bag_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9184","title":{"rendered":"From the Email Bag (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendall,<\/p>\n<p>I have found myself increasingly stunned by the tone of&#8230;[some] of the respondents on Titus, and that particular thread which included your own thoughts on Sarah Palin was particularly unedifying&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>On a more general note, these days I usually pause several times before posting on Titus because it would appear that on&#8230;[some] of the threads there is rightist determination to pounce on anything that is considered not to be towing their particular party line &#8212; and usually it is not the idea that is made subject to debate, but it all comes down to issues of personality and prejudice. Most of the time I do not engage because of such an expected response.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry that such Rush Limbaugh shout-you-down tactics have taken more moderate voices like my own out of the discussion, because clearly a lot of us have shrugged our shoulders and said to ourselves that we have better things to do than jumping in on a conversation where we are going to be kicked around the place like something nasty that the cat brought in!<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry that this polarization has taken place because it minimizes our ability to honestly and faithfully exchange ideas and create some kind of fresh, Christ-centered synthesis.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendall, I have found myself increasingly stunned by the tone of&#8230;[some] of the respondents on Titus, and that particular thread which included your own thoughts on Sarah Palin was particularly unedifying&#8230;. On a more general note, these days I usually<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9184\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","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=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}