{"id":104,"date":"2003-10-27T20:28:48","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3500years.com\/zsallia\/?p=104"},"modified":"2003-10-27T20:28:48","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T20:28:48","slug":"i-am-not-above-preening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/2003\/10\/27\/i-am-not-above-preening\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not Above Preening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Well, this has certainly been an invigorating twenty-four hours<\/strong> or so.  I must express my thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanesmay.com\/\">Dean Esmay<\/a> for his kind words regarding my thoughts offered here- praise is always that much sweeter when it comes from one you respect.  As for the readers he has sent to this humble site, I believe their comments speak for themselves.  Quality shows, people. Of all the accusations hurled at me over the years <em>&#8220;I would suppose that you have a doctorate in either philosophy or history&#8221;<\/em> certainly takes the prize for most unexpected and delightful.<\/p>\n<p>I am not usually a political writer, but I find the subject immensely seductive due both to the immediacy of the topics and the fervor of those who willingly delve in to the debate.  Somehow I doubt I shall be able to remain silent on these topics as the season progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this has certainly been an invigorating twenty-four hours or so. I must express my thanks to Dean Esmay for his kind words regarding my thoughts offered here- praise is always that much sweeter when it comes from one you respect. As for the readers he has sent to this humble site, I believe their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}