{"id":15739,"date":"2017-02-22T19:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T00:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2017-02-22T19:30:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T00:30:40","slug":"demagoguery-dies-in-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2017\/02\/demagoguery-dies-in-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Demagoguery Dies in Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are having fun mocking the WaPo\u2019s new slogan \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness\u201d, as if they knew anything about light. Good thing we live in a Republic.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/norma-mccorvey-jane-roe-of-roe-v-wade-decision-legalizing-abortion-dies-at-69\/2017\/02\/18\/24b83108-396e-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html?utm_term=.f2ca9fcfe7cf\">how they ended their<\/a> article when Norma McCorvey died.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t require that much in my life,\u201d Ms. McCorvey told the Times in 1994. \u201c.\u2009.\u2009. I just never had the privilege to go into an abortion clinic, lay down and have an abortion. That\u2019s the only thing I never had.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hardly any mention in the article regarding here last 20 years working in the pro-life movement with a commitment that never wavered. Mention is made of her conversion under evangelical minister Flip Benham, but nothing regarding her becoming Catholic. Her disillusionment with the abortion cause was partly due to how she saw the various clinics she worked in how they treated women.<\/p>\n<p>That the article ending with the above quote says everything about the Washington Post where narrative thrives in the darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are having fun mocking the WaPo\u2019s new slogan \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness\u201d, as if they knew anything about light. Good thing we live in a Republic. This is how&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15740,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}