{"id":2709,"date":"2009-09-18T18:48:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T02:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2009-09-18T19:10:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T03:10:05","slug":"the-great-irving-kristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-great-irving-kristol\/","title":{"rendered":"The great Irving Kristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secular Right mourns the death of Irving Kristol and sends its heartfelt condolences to his family.\u00a0 Kristol possessed a noble generosity and grace, not the least when cheerfully informing an interlocutor of his errors. \u00a0The irony, understatement, and cool detachment that characterized his brilliant essays are sadly lacking in much conservative discourse today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Irving Kristol maintained that religion was essential to a stable society.\u00a0 Some of us at Secular Right have contested such a claim, but when a man of Kristol&#8217;s wisdom and insight argues for the necessity of religion, we disagree only with great trepidation and doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secular Right mourns the death of Irving Kristol and sends its heartfelt condolences to his family.\u00a0 Kristol possessed a noble generosity and grace, not the least when cheerfully informing an interlocutor of his errors. \u00a0The irony, understatement, and cool detachment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-great-irving-kristol\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}