{"id":1424,"date":"2005-01-07T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T15:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2005-01-07T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T15:37:30","slug":"fair-and-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Fair and balanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed how getting children to &#8220;explore&#8221; something is nowadays a synonym for paedophilia, as in <span class=\"loony\">&#8220;the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsobserver.com\/news\/story\/1913619p-8258411c.html\">Here<\/a> is a species of intellectual child abuse, found through William Gibson&#8217;s blog. Gibson also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/2004_12_01_archive.asp#110275098224148571\">quotes,<\/a> of which I particularly liked this description of the ante-bellum South: <span class=\"loony\">&#8220;There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed how getting children to &#8220;explore&#8221; something is nowadays a synonym for paedophilia, as in &#8220;the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"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=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}