{"id":8034,"date":"2023-11-07T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2023-11-09T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T20:44:37","slug":"making-conversation-with-a-leftie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8034","title":{"rendered":"Making Conversation with a Leftie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Have you been a pagan\u00a0 all your life, or did you backslide at some point?&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;I became <em>enlightened<\/em> when I realized that women have a Right to Choose!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry.&nbsp; <em>Choose<\/em> what?&nbsp; Could you elaborate?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A woman has the right to make reproductive choices!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Well, surely she can chose which man it is with whom she might reproduce a human, but . . . &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;No!&nbsp; I&nbsp; mean whether or not she&#8217;ll keep the kid &#8211; I mean <em>tissue<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Oh.&nbsp; I see.&nbsp; Semantics is the key.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, you may be a man of the trick,<br>Maybe even sodomitic!<br>Fear not!&nbsp; After the fall<br>He came down!<br>Shed His blood for all!<br>Not just for the rich and pretty;<br>But for the poor and unwitty&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1420 on 7 Nov., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Have you been a pagan\u00a0 all your life, or did you backslide at some point?&#8221; &#8220;I became enlightened when I realized that women have a Right to Choose!&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry.&nbsp; Choose what?&nbsp; Could you elaborate?&#8221; &#8220;A woman has the right to make reproductive choices!&#8221; &#8220;Well, surely she can chose which man it is with whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,52,23,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8046,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}