{"id":3993,"date":"2010-03-24T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2010-03-24T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T23:05:03","slug":"defending-ann-coulter-as-an-american-peculiarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/defending-ann-coulter-as-an-american-peculiarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending Ann Coulter as an American peculiarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2010\/03\/canada_is_not_a_free_society.php\">At ScienceBlogs I defend free speech as an American cultural peculiarity<\/a> which should be defended, not a human universal right (it simply isn&#8217;t empirically):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Though seriously, I&#8217;m expressing a very cultural biased viewpoint here, an American one, and I&#8217;m of conscious of this. I really don&#8217;t see a point in castigating Canadians for being Canadians, they&#8217;re not China or Syria, but neither are they the United States. Even the British have insane libel laws which stifle speech operationally, though there&#8217;s a chance that the law might be tightened up. We alone should be the City upon a Hill where the blasphemers and peddlers of bigotry can take refuge, because we&#8217;re already the last best and only hope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At ScienceBlogs I defend free speech as an American cultural peculiarity which should be defended, not a human universal right (it simply isn&#8217;t empirically): &#8230; Though seriously, I&#8217;m expressing a very cultural biased viewpoint here, an American one, and I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/defending-ann-coulter-as-an-american-peculiarity\/\">Continue reading <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":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[198,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}