{"id":3506,"date":"2006-12-26T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2017-12-09T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T16:28:52","slug":"an-arthur-c-brooks-christmas-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/26\/an-arthur-c-brooks-christmas-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"An Arthur C. Brooks Christmas Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s only tangentially related to the Albert C. Brooks-described mindset (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0465008216?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0465008216\">Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0465008216\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>), but as I walked relatives out of our house after Christmas dinner, I saw that the house down the block with the &#8220;Invade Iran! No&#8221; bumper stickers and the &#8220;Invest in Peace Instead of War&#8221; yard signs had one of the local bus service&#8217;s Call a Ride program vehicles out front.<\/p>\n<p>Did someone call a taxpayer-subsidized, bureaucrat-operated van came to take one of the elderly or disabled guests home after Christmas dinner instead of, you know, <i>taking that guest home<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, <i>damn<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s only tangentially related to the Albert C. Brooks-described mindset (Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism), but as I walked relatives out of our house after Christmas dinner, I saw that the house down the block with the &#8220;Invade Iran! No&#8221; bumper stickers and the &#8220;Invest in Peace Instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18360,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/18360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}