{"id":1525,"date":"2003-10-24T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/10\/24\/1525.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:43:29","slug":"prager-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/10\/24\/prager-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Prager, part two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gentle Readers, Dennis Prager has, as promised, posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/dennisprager\/dp20031021.shtml\">Part Two<\/a> of his, well, interesting take on the differences between the Left and Right in America. I won't go into the detail on this one, as the whole essay is simply a list of those differences, and I don't want to include his entire essay as part of mine. That would be (a) cheating, and (2) tedious. So if you have a taste for it, read the essay on the Townhall site.\n\n<p>I will just point out that of the fifteen policy\/principle topics he lists, his description of the Left coincides (more or less) with my own thinking on the first, second (kinda), fourth, sixth, tenth, and twelfth. I agree with his portrayal of Right-thinking principles on the eighth. I don't actually understand the third or the seventh. The fifth had me reaching for my \"it's more complicated that that\" stamp, which I would also use on the fourteenth. The ninth is just a lie about the Left, and so is the fifteenth. The eleventh is so ambiguous I don't see how anybody could know how they stand on it. And the fourteenth may well be an accurate caricature of the Left, but I don't quite understand it as a question of principle.\n\n<p>I sure hope I haven't miscounted.\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Readers, Dennis Prager has, as promised, posted Part Two of his, well, interesting take on the differences between the Left and Right in America. I won&#8217;t go into the detail on this one, as the whole essay is simply&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16855,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/16855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}