{"id":1128,"date":"2005-06-01T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T16:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/06\/i_find_it_strange\/"},"modified":"2005-06-01T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T16:50:57","slug":"i_find_it_strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/06\/i_find_it_strange.html","title":{"rendered":"I FIND IT STRANGE . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

… that Chuck Colson<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is offended — “I am really shocked,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> he says —
\nthat Mark Felt (a k a Deep Throat) went “sneaking around dark alleys and talking to
\nreporters.” It wasn’t “the right way” for a “very
\nupright” FBI agent to uncover Watergate crimes. Uh, wait a minute, Chuck.
\nWeren’t you one of the worst of Nixon’s real dark-alley sneaks? Weren’t you
\nthe White House counsel who ordered an illegal break-in by Howard Hunt to find info
\nagainst Nixon’s opponents? Weren’t you the guy who pleaded guilty to
\nWatergate-related charges and to obstruction of justice in the Daniel Ellsberg
\ncase? Weren’t you sentenced to from one to three years in prison? Didn’t you
\nserve only seven months because — praise the Lord — you were “born
\nagain”?  Please, Chuck, save your Christian evangelism for your followers and
\nspare the rest of us your moral outrage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… that Chuck Colson is offended — “I am really shocked,” he says — that Mark Felt (a k a Deep Throat) went “sneaking around dark alleys and talking to reporters.” It wasn’t “the right way” for a “very upright” FBI agent to uncover Watergate crimes. Uh, wait a minute, Chuck. Weren’t you one of the worst of Nixon’s real dark-alley sneaks? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ic","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}