{"id":406,"date":"2010-04-20T08:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T07:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-04-20T08:17:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T07:17:50","slug":"theme-and-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/20\/theme-and-substance\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme And Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I did my interview with Lars Larson, a very popular radio show host in America. I understand these &#8216;one theme&#8217; shows are common but it came as a culture shock to me that a radio show would try to steer every conversation and every guest into denigration of one political faction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I did suggest to him that we were both children of adversarial politics but this table-thumping goes beyond just being adversaries because there is no way at all some of these people would ever modify their thinking; you know exactly who they would have been a hundred years ago, what they would have been saying and what they would have believed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However I wonder if I cannot say the same about me. The interview was pleasant enough and I side-stepped domestic American politics because I don&#8217;t know enough about it, and I would never run any discussion that was not balanced. It is just somehow I distrust anyone whose mind you could never change. However intelligent they are it strikes me as somehow ignorant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have come to live in a great deal of &#8216;chaos&#8217; with much unresolved and I do not mind. I do not look for absolutes or certainties. Those people who do I feel, limit their vision because they will always find them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That is the trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did my interview with Lars Larson, a very popular radio show host in America. I understand these &#8216;one theme&#8217; shows are common but it came as a culture shock to me that a radio show would try to steer every conversation and every guest into denigration of one political faction. I did suggest to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-choice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}