{"id":350,"date":"2005-12-16T12:25:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=350"},"modified":"2005-12-16T12:25:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:25:44","slug":"gary-hart-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/12\/gary-hart-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Hart Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/interviews\/05\/12\/int05047.html\">BuzzFlash Interview <\/a>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/sideshow.me.uk\/sdec05.htm#12161328\">Sideshow<\/a>) I found this quote from Gary Hart to be memorable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8230; the reason you can\u2019t mix religion and politics is, religion is about absolutes, right and wrong, good and evil. Politics is about compromise. If you cannot compromise on issues that are not central to a person\u2019s faith \u2013 and that\u2019s about 99% of the issues our country faces \u2013 then the country doesn\u2019t work. The government doesn\u2019t work. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I will have to check out the essay,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/premiums\/05\/11\/pre05168.html\"><em>God And Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics<\/em><\/a>, that spawned the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, without compromise, this country doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a BuzzFlash Interview (via Sideshow) I found this quote from Gary Hart to be memorable: &#8230; the reason you can\u2019t mix religion and politics is, religion is about absolutes, right and wrong, good and evil. Politics is about compromise. If you cannot compromise on issues that are not central to a person\u2019s faith \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/12\/gary-hart-interview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gary Hart Interview<\/span> <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberating-thoughts","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}