{"id":3972,"date":"2007-05-07T13:56:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/05\/07\/i-wish-they-were-debating-something-else\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T13:56:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:56:49","slug":"i-wish-they-were-debating-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/05\/i-wish-they-were-debating-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish they were debating something else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">First there was the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Nightline\/Story?id=3130360&#038;page=1\">Nighline debate<\/a> which featured atheists one one side and included Kirk Cameron on the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Now Christopher Hitchens <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=us\/0-0&#038;fp=463fc1cefc02f623&#038;ei=32U_RqSaNYLoowLB2YSSAg&#038;url=http%3A\/\/www.gothamist.com\/2007\/05\/07\/pencil_this_in_229.php&#038;cid=0\">debates<\/a> Rev.  Al Sharpton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Now if Hitchens and Sharpton were debating which is the greatest jerk it would be one thing, but these debate slates are not exactly the cream of the crop of apologetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First there was the Nighline debate which featured atheists one one side and included Kirk Cameron on the other. Now Christopher Hitchens debates Rev. Al Sharpton. Now if Hitchens and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","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=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}