{"id":705,"date":"2004-11-27T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2004-11-27T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=705"},"modified":"2004-11-27T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2004-11-27T11:54:09","slug":"simply-brilliant-thoughts-round-the-campfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Simply brilliant thoughts &#8217;round the campfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certain posts within the blogosphere radiate much longer and brighter than the initial protagonist&#8217;s opinion that spurred them.  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/broodingpersian.blogspot.com\/2004_11_01_broodingpersian_archive.html#110055552966869322\"><em>The Dutch, Ledeen &#038; an unrepentant Nazi<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; written by h. in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalreview.com\/ledeen\/ledeen200411101620.asp\">this<\/a> Ledeen rant, and followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/broodingpersian.blogspot.com\/2004_11_01_broodingpersian_archive.html#110088930090289230\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/broodingpersian.blogspot.com\/2004_11_01_broodingpersian_archive.html#110107210965826251\">this<\/a>, and now today, <a href=\"http:\/\/broodingpersian.blogspot.com\/2004_11_01_broodingpersian_archive.html#110151181511860853\">this<\/a>, are such gems.<\/p>\n<p>Especially relevant considering Pakistan&#8217;s decision to ban the Nov. 22 issue of <em>Newsweek<\/em> for &#8220;desecrating the Koran&#8221; in an article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4044939.stm\">about murdered Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh and pictures of a woman with Koranic verses inscribed on her body<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You might consider it a cop-out on my part not to be adding my two-cents at this point.  But h. is a formidable instructor and a seeker who lit-the-fire <a href=\"http:\/\/broodingpersian.blogspot.com\/2004_11_01_broodingpersian_archive.html#109960189639422027\">here<\/a> and tends it carefully, and like a tramp whose found a refuge from the bitter cold tracks, I&#8217;m still contemplating the sparks in the embers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain posts within the blogosphere radiate much longer and brighter than the initial protagonist&#8217;s opinion that spurred them. &#8220;The Dutch, Ledeen &#038; an unrepentant Nazi,&#8221; written by h. in response to this Ledeen rant, and followed by this and this, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}