{"id":1325,"date":"2005-11-03T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2005-11-03T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T16:39:46","slug":"sane-devout-americans-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Sane, devout Americans wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next month. I&#8217;m making an <em>Analysis<\/em> programme for Radio Four on the way that Americans tend to believe that history must have an architect or at least a meaning. This seemed more interesting to everyone that yet another go-around on <span class=\"caps\">ID, <\/span>which is a subset of this whig interpretation of the universe.<\/p>\n\n<p>The difficulty, of course, is to stop this coming over as yet another tour around the psyche of those wacky yet curiously unlovable people across the pond. I want to get over the immediate, allergic reaction that educated English people have when God comes into the conversation of an American. There are ways to fool the immune system. It&#8217;s all right if it&#8217;s set to music: no one minds Emmylou Harris. But we can&#8217;t have her. So I am trying to come up with thoughtful, fluent, sympathetic American voices who can get this kind of discussion past the listeners&#8217; immune systems. Obviously,. I have my own list, and will be asking for suggestions privately. But if anyone has ideas here, please comment away.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next month. I&#8217;m making an Analysis programme for Radio Four on the way that Americans tend to believe that history must have an architect or at least a meaning. This seemed more interesting to everyone that yet another go-around on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}