{"id":296,"date":"2019-04-09T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=296"},"modified":"2019-04-09T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:26:07","slug":"lets-start-a-national-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2019\/04\/09\/lets-start-a-national-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s start a national conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/centerforinquiry.org\/blog\/unco_junto_the_myth_of_the_national_conversation\/\">Unco Junto: The Myth of the \u2018National Conversation\u2019 | Center for Inquiry<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In practical terms \u201cLet\u2019s start a national conversation\u201d often means \u201cPeople who disagree with me on a specific issue should listen to what I have to say, realize that I\u2019m right, and address it in the way I want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8230;rather than countering the criticism they receive, often fall back the claim that they are only \u201ctrying to start a national conversation.\u201d It\u2019s become the lofty, media-savvy equivalent of smugly ending one\u2019s sentence with \u201cI\u2019m just sayin!\u201d This cowardly use of the phrase \u201cnational conversation\u201d would be better off retired.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unco Junto: The Myth of the \u2018National Conversation\u2019 | Center for Inquiry In practical terms \u201cLet\u2019s start a national conversation\u201d often means \u201cPeople who disagree with me on a specific issue should listen to what I have to say, realize that I\u2019m right, and address it in the way I want.\u201d &#8230;rather than countering the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}