{"id":7507,"date":"2012-07-07T23:58:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2012-07-07T23:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:58:01","slug":"the-placenta-of-the-earth-has-been-ruptured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-placenta-of-the-earth-has-been-ruptured\/","title":{"rendered":"The Placenta of the Earth has been Ruptured!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Joan-Chittister.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Joan-Chittister-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Joan Chittister\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Joan-Chittister-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Joan-Chittister.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From the Baccalaureate address at Stanford University by Joan Chittister, the Benedictine Catholic sister, author and (to quote the <a href=\"http:\/\/sojo.net\/blogs\/2012\/07\/03\/sister-joan-chittisters-stanford-baccalaureate-address\">God\u2019s Politics blog<\/a>) \u201csocial justice stalwart\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ozone layer, the placenta of the earth, has been ruptured. The polar ice cap is melting and raising the water levels of the world. And, at the same time, the lands of the poor are turning to dust and stone while the industrialized world goes on choosing short-term profits over long-term global warming treaties.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear weaponry threatens the very existence of the planet and they have the effrontery to call it &#8220;defense.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Chittister has the effrontery to pass that off as truth.<\/p>\n<p>There are few other gems in her speech, not least the fact that she finds answers to some of the questions she raises in \u201cfolk literature\u201d. Of course she does. <\/p>\n<p>Beneath the emoting and the saccharine, I suspect there\u2019s the calculation of yet another clerical authoritarian. Same old, same old, in other words.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Baccalaureate address at Stanford University by Joan Chittister, the Benedictine Catholic sister, author and (to quote the God\u2019s Politics blog) \u201csocial justice stalwart\u201d: The ozone layer, the placenta of the earth, has been ruptured. The polar ice cap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-placenta-of-the-earth-has-been-ruptured\/\">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":[9],"tags":[937,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507"}],"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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7510,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions\/7510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}