{"id":4354,"date":"2010-07-30T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2010-07-30T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T14:02:59","slug":"our-personal-narratives-often-ignore-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/07\/30\/our-personal-narratives-often-ignore-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Personal Narratives Often Ignore Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Pitts Jr. of <em>The Miami Herald<\/em> has written the commentary <a title=\"Leonard Pitts column\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2010\/07\/30\/98268\/commentary-our-personal-narratives.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Our Personal Narratives Often Ignore Facts<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ten years ago, Arthur Teitelbaum, then an official of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote in another context: <q>Beware the moments when facts seem to confirm prejudices. Such times are traps, when the well-meaning are misled and the mean-spirited gain confidence.<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guilty as charged.\u00a0 That is what my blog posts are all about.\u00a0 Once or twice I have posted something that disproves one of my prejudices.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t think of which post that is, but I know there is one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Pitts Jr. of The Miami Herald has written the commentary Our Personal Narratives Often Ignore Facts. Ten years ago, Arthur Teitelbaum, then an official of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote in another context: Beware the moments when facts seem to confirm prejudices. Such times are traps, when the well-meaning are misled and the mean-spirited gain [&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-4354","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\/4354","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=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}