{"id":1015,"date":"2004-07-14T02:58:56","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T06:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/embracing_common_ground\/"},"modified":"2004-07-14T02:58:56","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T06:58:56","slug":"embracing_common_ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/embracing_common_ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Common Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ernie The Attorney quotes guitarist Chris Cortez, who <a title=\"Let's hear it for Harmony\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ernietheattorney.net\/ernie_the_attorney\/2004\/07\/lets_hear_it_fo.html\">offers a little perspective on life<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My general philosophy is one where we embrace things that bring us together and reject what separates us. Race and religion, gay or straight, republican or democrat, nationalism. These are examples of differences. In the overall scheme of our evolution, it&#8217;s what we have in common that moves us forward. The differences become scapegoats for the little minds who need to blame someone for their own failures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, I don&#8217;t exactly come to this with clean hands.  But I like to think that my criticisms of politicians center on incompetence and partisan craziness, and that I don&#8217;t just spew out the &#8220;X group is bringing on the end of civilization,&#8221; like you hear on radio and elsewhere these days.<br \/>\nAnyway, we now return to regular programing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/embracing_common_ground\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Embracing Common Ground\"><p>Ernie The Attorney quotes guitarist Chris Cortez, who offers a little perspective on life: My general philosophy is one where we embrace things that bring us together and reject what separates us. Race and religion, gay or straight, republican or democrat, nationalism. These are examples of differences. In the overall scheme of our evolution, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}