{"id":290,"date":"2007-01-12T11:36:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T15:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2007-01-12T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T15:38:22","slug":"the-difference-if-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"The difference if makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is much good discussion below on the topic of faith.  Go visit it <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=288\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted and I thought I&#8217;d ask if anyone thinks the following two comments are different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/11\/AR2007011101571.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>As John Edwards put it most starkly and egregiously in 2004: If John Kerry becomes president, Christopher Reeve will walk again.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200410130006\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>Christopher Reeve just passed away. And America just lost a great champion for this cause. Somebody who is a powerful voice for the need to do stem cell research and change the lives of people like him, who have gone through the tragedy. Well, if we can do the work that we can do in this country &#8212; the work we will do when John Kerry is president &#8212; people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.<\/p>\n<p>How many ways are these different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much good discussion below on the topic of faith. Go visit it here. It&#8217;s been a while since I posted and I thought I&#8217;d ask if anyone thinks the following two comments are different. this: >As John Edwards put it most starkly and egregiously in 2004: If John Kerry becomes president, Christopher Reeve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The difference if makes<\/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":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-krauthammer","category-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}