{"id":1000493,"date":"2007-03-26T08:49:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/politics\/2007\/03\/26\/politics-as-culture\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T08:49:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:49:26","slug":"politics-as-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/politics\/2007\/03\/26\/politics-as-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics as Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a fascinating article in the L.A. Times today about <a class=\"2007-03-26T10:46:35Z\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-op-chait25mar25,0,3748551.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions\">Why the right goes nuclear over global warming<\/a>. It&#8217;s not your typical piece about global warming so much as it is about the irrational beliefs and attitudes behind the debate. You get the feeling it&#8217;s more like high school debate than any sort of rational discourse: the opposing team says &#8220;white&#8221; so therefore we must say &#8220;black&#8221;, regardless of what&#8217;s true. You contort your beliefs to fit your chosen side rather than the other way around. If you want to support the issue without changing teams, you have to figure out a way to rationalize white as black. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a fascinating article in the L.A. Times today about Why the right goes nuclear over global warming. It&#8217;s not your typical piece about global warming so much as it is about the irrational beliefs and attitudes behind the debate. You get the feeling it&#8217;s more like high school debate than any sort of rational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}