{"id":5680,"date":"2005-10-06T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/10\/06\/where-would-you-start\/"},"modified":"2005-10-06T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T18:44:04","slug":"where-would-you-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/10\/where-would-you-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Where would you start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">A number of readers have asked whether I will be responding to Garry Wills&#8217; long article in the New York Review of Books (October 6) claiming that a few friends and I are manipulating the Vatican and the White House to create what he calls government by &#8220;the fringes.&#8221; When the pope and the president of the United States are the fringes, one might well wonder where the center is. Mr. Wills&#8217; answer, of course, is that the center is Garry Wills, and, he would have us believe, the great majority of the American people who agree with him. I do not intend to make an extensive response to his strange article (Where would one begin?),&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/?p=31\">Fr Neuhaus<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">That is just what I though when I unfortunately read through Will&#8217;s article? Not only where would you start, but a good general principle is &quot;Life is too short to fisk Gary Wills.&quot; Luckily his article now on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/article-preview?article_id=18308\">you have to pay for it first part<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of readers have asked whether I will be responding to Garry Wills&#8217; long article in the New York Review of Books (October 6) claiming that a few friends&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-5680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","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=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}