{"id":13048,"date":"2012-09-13T20:37:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T00:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13048"},"modified":"2012-09-13T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T00:37:38","slug":"not-quite-the-simile-he-was-going-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/09\/not-quite-the-simile-he-was-going-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Not quite the simile he was going for"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At yesterday\u2019s U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the National Labor Relations Board\u2019s (NLRB) harassment of Catholic colleges and universities, Congressman Robert Andrews (N.J.-1st) reportedly put his foot in his mouth when he characterized the hearing as a \u201cclassic case of Nero fiddling while Rome burns\u201d\u2014apparently to give color to his complaint that the issues being considered by the committee were not \u201ccompelling questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the image of Rome\u2019s destruction at the hands of a tyrant who hated Christianity, and the gruesome martyrdom of Christians who were blamed for the fire, was exactly the wrong image to put forward while attempting to dismiss the Obama administration\u2019s violations of religious freedom as unworthy of a Congressional hearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org\/2012\/09\/13\/congressman-outrageously-compares-religious-liberty-hearing-to-nero-fiddling-while-rome-burns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At yesterday\u2019s U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the National Labor Relations Board\u2019s (NLRB) harassment of Catholic colleges and universities, Congressman Robert Andrews (N.J.-1st) reportedly put his foot in his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13049,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048\/revisions\/13049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}