{"id":14616,"date":"2013-10-03T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14616"},"modified":"2013-10-03T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T14:48:44","slug":"half-the-republicans-you-know-are-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/03\/half-the-republicans-you-know-are-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"Half the Republicans You Know Are Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of this blog being unfair and unbalanced and deviating a little from the motto <q>Extremism is the Enemy of Rationality<sup>\u2122<\/sup><\/q>, I bring you the <em>Truth Out<\/em> article <a title=\"Truthout article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/19201-half-the-republicans-you-know-are-insane\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Half the Republicans You Know Are Insane<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked if Muslims are working to implement Sharia Law in America &#8211; the harshly medieval seventh-century Islamic code best represented by the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Wahabists in the ranks of al Qaeda and (shhhh) a significant portion of the rebels in Syria &#8211; 44% of Republicans said it was true. If you know five Republicans, once again, two of them believe this, and a third is halfway convinced. Um&#8230;how? Where? In what way? Because women can now get free contraception and gay people have the same rights as you do? You think the Taliban is down with that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other examples in the article are just as entertaining as the one above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of this blog being unfair and unbalanced and deviating a little from the motto Extremism is the Enemy of Rationality\u2122, I bring you the Truth Out article Half the Republicans You Know Are Insane. When asked if Muslims are working to implement Sharia Law in America &#8211; the harshly medieval seventh-century Islamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14617,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}