{"id":6815,"date":"2012-01-12T05:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2012-01-12T05:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T05:05:32","slug":"the-s-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-s-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The S-Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Newt-Gingrich1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Newt-Gingrich1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Newt Gingrich\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6821\" \/><\/a>In the in-tray today an apocalyptic, adjective-crammed appeal to support the Gingrich campaign. It began as follows: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Conservative:<\/p>\n<p>In 1964, Ronald Reagan told conservatives that this was a time for choosing. Faced with a radical, progressive President who would weaken America abroad and at home, they could either fight to preserve America as the last, best hope on earth, or consign their children to a thousand years of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>This year is another such time for choosing. We can either nominate a timid Massachusetts moderate Republican to take on a secular socialist who threatens to turn us into a nation like the decrepit Republics of Western Europe, or we can nominate a bold Reagan conservative who will take the fight to Barack Obama in the Fall. Will you join me?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, no (there are others who will pose a more effective challenge to the Democrats), but it&#8217;s entertaining to see \u201csecular\u201d up there with the other scare-words. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the in-tray today an apocalyptic, adjective-crammed appeal to support the Gingrich campaign. It began as follows: Dear Conservative: In 1964, Ronald Reagan told conservatives that this was a time for choosing. Faced with a radical, progressive President who would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-s-word\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[740,633,880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6825,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/6825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}