{"id":617862,"date":"2010-01-01T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-2170972105902458666"},"modified":"2010-01-01T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T15:54:12","slug":"american-spine-movement-brooks-signs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/617862","title":{"rendered":"American spine movement: Brooks signs up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Maybe it&#8217;s the influence of Gail Collins, maybe it&#8217;s disgust with the GOP&#8217;s institutionalized hysteria, maybe it&#8217;s just chance, but <a href=\"http:\/\/s.nyt.com\/u\/A7K\">David Brooks wrote a largely sensible editorial today<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;s effectively joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2009\/12\/america-please-grow-spine.html\">American Spine Development Association<\/a>, a now bipartisan movement to bring a smidgen of the courage of past generations to our cowardly modernity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Perfection is not an option. Planes will blow up. An America with a spine will lose fewer planes and spend less than eternity at war. Spineless America will elect Sarah Palin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Spine is good.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-2170972105902458666?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the influence of Gail Collins, maybe it&#8217;s disgust with the GOP&#8217;s institutionalized hysteria, maybe it&#8217;s just chance, but David Brooks wrote a largely sensible editorial today. He&#8217;s effectively joined the American Spine Development Association, a now bipartisan movement to bring a smidgen of the courage of past generations to our cowardly modernity. Perfection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2AJw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}