{"id":2605,"date":"2011-03-30T06:43:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:16:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:16:50","slug":"another-squirmish-in-the-culture-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2605","title":{"rendered":"Another squirmish* in the culture wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of self-refuting worries (by now noticed by all of the web), here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2011_03\/028678.php\">disgraced former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9,&quot; Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. &quot;I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, <strong>by the time they&#39;re my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.&quot;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A secular atheist country dominated by religious fundamentalists. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/karoli\/sarah-palin-wonders-aloud-if-libya-squirmis\">*squirmish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of self-refuting worries (by now noticed by all of the web), here is disgraced former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich: &quot;I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9,&quot; Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. &quot;I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2605\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another squirmish* in the culture wars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,146,266,145],"tags":[993,991,2005,2008,288,992,990],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contradictions","category-john-hagee","category-newt-gingrich","category-religion-op-ed-writers-sources","tag-cornerstone-church","tag-culture-wars","tag-john-hagee","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-sarah-palin","tag-secular-atheist-islamists","tag-squirmish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}