{"id":6081,"date":"2015-01-12T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T20:31:44","slug":"lets-not-get-cynical-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6081","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Not Get Cynical Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Satire can be dangerous and harmful. It can breed a dehumanizing cynicism which becomes an end in itself,&#8221; writes Carl Truman, but it is also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2015\/01\/the-unsung-heroes-of-freedom\">vital to healthy democracy<\/a>. Where it exists, it is a sign that power is being resisted. Where it is permitted, it is a sign of freedom and a gauge of the ability of those in charge to allow criticism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And from our political desk, we&#8217;re hearing reports that the administration who said the world doesn&#8217;t respect the United States enough to stand with us did not respect the world enough to stand with them during yesterday&#8217;s solidarity march in Paris. The secretary of state said, essentially, &#8220;Just because I couldn&#8217;t attend your ball games or birthday parties doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t love you, son. Why does this always have to be about you?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Satire can be dangerous and harmful. It can breed a dehumanizing cynicism which becomes an end in itself,&#8221; writes Carl Truman, but it is also &#8220;vital to healthy democracy. Where it exists, it is a sign that power is being resisted. Where it is permitted, it is a sign of freedom and a gauge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s Not Get Cynical Here<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}