{"id":33,"date":"2005-10-04T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1128448840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1128448840\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Surviving the Kiln&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A belated article has appeared rebuffing Pullman&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,6109,1396252,00.html\">&#8220;Common Sense Has Much to Learn From Moonshine&#8221;<\/a> (from January 2005). AM Siriano claims at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therealitycheck.org\/GuestColumnist\/amsiriano012605.htm\">The Reality Check<\/a> that &#8220;what [Pullman] is really saying is that traditional values are not based on facts. Conservatives don&#39;t think, says Pullman, and their loyalty to the superfluous study of syntax and parts of speech is a case in point. Conservatives, especially the ones who actually believe a fairy tale like Christianity, are all about those nasty things called rules, and God knows\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009der, the Eternal Now, the Great Otherness, or Gaia knows\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthat we all have had way too much o\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 that!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therealitycheck.org\/GuestColumnist\/amsiriano012605.htm\">Read more.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A belated article has appeared rebuffing Pullman&#39;s &#8220;Common Sense Has Much to Learn From Moonshine&#8221; (from January 2005). AM Siriano claims at The Reality Check that &#8220;what [Pullman] is really saying is that traditional values are not based on facts. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1128448840\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}