{"id":315,"date":"2004-10-18T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/reality-based-communitarians\/"},"modified":"2004-10-18T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T15:45:00","slug":"reality-based-communitarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/18\/reality-based-communitarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality-Based Communitarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004_10_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#109806377455059522\">Godzilla<\/a> when the country (and by extension the world) is being destroyed by a cabal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/17\/magazine\/17BUSH.html?ex=1255665600&#038;en=890a96189e162076&amp;amp;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">faith-based nutjobs<\/a>? Because I feel myself in weird sympathy with the Bushies &#8212; reality is just too depressing. For comments from folks with stronger constitutions, see <a href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2004\/10\/global_antireal.html\">Majikthise<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.typepad.com\/matthew\/2004\/10\/the_widening_re.html\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mmcirvin\/157807.html?mode=reply\">Matt McIrvin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/EE\/index.php\/weblog\/reality_based_community_news\/\">Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriscmooney.com\/blog.asp?Id=1258\">Chris C Mooney<\/a>, or best of all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cscs.umich.edu\/~crshalizi\/weblog\/277.html\">Cosma Shalizi<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why blog about Godzilla when the country (and by extension the world) is being destroyed by a cabal of faith-based nutjobs? Because I feel myself in weird sympathy with the Bushies &#8212; reality is just too depressing. For comments from folks with stronger constitutions, see Majikthise, Matthew Yglesias, Matt McIrvin, Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9, Chris C Mooney, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}