{"id":2618,"date":"2010-03-29T07:04:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2010-03-29T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:05:16","slug":"the-best-paragraph-ive-read-in-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/03\/29\/the-best-paragraph-ive-read-in-weeks","title":{"rendered":"The Best Paragraph I\u2019ve Read In&nbsp;Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/51035681884@N01\/3207224774\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3487\/3207224774_79162823d5_m.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Orange smile\" title=\"Orange smile\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" class=\"right\"><\/a>I stumbled upon this little gem&nbsp;today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday I spoke ill of Glenn Beck on my Twitter feed. It kinda ruffled some people, I think. I will not be issuing a \u201cWhat I really meant\u201d tweet. \ud83d\ude42 What I meant when I said Beck is an \u201cidolatrous fearmonger\u201d is that he worships idols and mongers fear. (source: the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/gospeldrivenchurch.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/quick-hits-4.html\">Jared Wilson<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I laughed out loud for a good thirty seconds when I read that. It\u2019s refreshing to see someone stand by their words even when they annoy people. It\u2019s a rare form of courage in our culture.<\/p>\n<p>Plus I love the phrase \u201che worships idols and mongers fear.\u201d Brilliant. Glenn Beck fans and foes alike should admire such&nbsp;wit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon this little gem&nbsp;today: Yesterday I spoke ill of Glenn Beck on my Twitter feed. It kinda ruffled some people, I think. I will not be issuing a \u201cWhat I really meant\u201d tweet. \ud83d\ude42 What I meant when I said Beck is an \u201cidolatrous fearmonger\u201d is that he worships idols and mongers fear. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/03\/29\/the-best-paragraph-ive-read-in-weeks\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThe Best Paragraph I\u2019ve Read In&nbsp;Weeks\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Ge","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}