{"id":988,"date":"2004-05-30T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-30T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T21:25:35","slug":"988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/30\/988\/","title":{"rendered":"Say It Again, Steyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn, from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/steyn\/cst-edt-steyn30.html\" target=\"new\"><i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i> column today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But that&#8217;s the difference between then and now: the loss of proportion. They had victims galore back in 1863, but they weren&#8217;t a victim culture. They had a lot of crummy decisions and bureaucratic screwups worth re-examining, but they weren&#8217;t a nation that prioritized retroactive pseudo-legalistic self-flagellating vaudeville over all else. They had hellish setbacks but they didn&#8217;t lose sight of the forest in order to obsess week after week on one tiny twig of one weedy little tree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn, from his Chicago Sun-Times column today: But that&#8217;s the difference between then and now: the loss of proportion. They had victims galore back in 1863, but they weren&#8217;t a victim culture. They had a lot of crummy decisions and bureaucratic screwups worth re-examining, but they weren&#8217;t a nation that prioritized retroactive pseudo-legalistic self-flagellating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23268,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/23268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}