{"id":249,"date":"2009-08-12T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=249"},"modified":"2017-01-30T23:26:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T04:26:42","slug":"i-guess-that-im-a-centrist-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"I guess that I’m a centrist now"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friends in party X assume that I’ll agree with them that the adherents of party Y are credulous buffoons because they follow the\u2014presumably evil\u2014leadership of party Y. It would be easier for me to do so if I’d not seen that party X’s membership is just as credulous. Years ago, I’d never have thought of myself as a centrist, but it seems to me that most people are far from either party’s extreme position, and mostly want to be left alone. At any rate, I remain unimpressed with either party’s fanaticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friends in party X assume that I’ll agree with them that the adherents of party Y are credulous buffoons because they follow the\u2014presumably evil\u2014leadership of party Y. It would be easier for me to do so if I’d not seen that party X’s membership is just as credulous. Years ago, I’d never have thought … Continue reading “I guess that I’m a centrist now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-41","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=14","url_meta":{"origin":249,"position":0},"title":"If you could talk to dead people, with whom would you talk?","author":"Jorah","date":"April 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"--- John S wrote: > If you could meet and chat with anyone that you wanted who was > deceased. 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