{"id":5781,"date":"2009-11-27T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2009-11-27T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:24:00","slug":"the-power-of-good-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5781","title":{"rendered":"The power of good journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Sharlet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=106115324\">The Family<\/a> is a book about scary people and scary events, but one that every American should read.<\/p>\n<p>For those who do not lead a life of questioning on their own, or who take the world at face value, there is the impression of innocence from these influence peddlers who claim to be standing mano a mano with god and god&#8217;s way, the American way, but this god of power is not a god of love, and it seems to me that we need more proselytizers of love these days.<\/p>\n<p>So for those who fear the unfamiliar, I advocate learning to live with an open heart and mind, because only in a space this large will you find god. God is not a roach that squeezes into narrow cracks or hides in the dark like The Family is doing, the god you seek is much larger, I can assure you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Sharlet&#8217;s The Family is a book about scary people and scary events, but one that every American should read. For those who do not lead a life of questioning on their own, or who take the world at face value, there is the impression of innocence from these influence peddlers who claim to be standing mano a mano with god and god&#8217;s way, the American way, but this god of power is not a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}