{"id":2868,"date":"2022-03-12T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:56:00","slug":"march-exclusion-twelfth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2868","title":{"rendered":"March Ex(clusion) \u2014 twelfth day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cEnlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 James Madison, <em>Federalist Papers<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s getting more difficult to navigate a course of balanced influences, now that <em>everything<\/em> is so charged with persuasion, hyper-slant, duplicitous rhetoric, or outright psychological manipulation. I\u2019m reading the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book by Thomas E. Ricks about the educational context of four key Framers (not inaccurately sized up as a somewhat revisionist take on how literary writings of the classical world shaped the men who invented the American Republic). I\u2019m monitoring the daily editorial media of populist partisans, as well as alternative analysis (from Tyler Durden to Jimmy Dore). I skim the top stories put out by the Corporate Media. I partake of regular Peterson and Rogan doses. I follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Marginalian<\/em><\/a>. I watched Oliver Stone\u2019s informative documentary called <em>Ukraine on Fire<\/em>. Trying to avoid becoming part of somebody\u2019s self-serving agenda can feel like a full-time job!\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> n o n e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEnlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.\u201d \u2013 James Madison, Federalist Papers &nbsp; It\u2019s getting more difficult to navigate a course of balanced influences, now that everything is so charged with persuasion, hyper-slant, duplicitous rhetoric, or outright psychological manipulation. I\u2019m reading the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book by Thomas E. Ricks about the educational context of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,46,44,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}