{"id":198668,"date":"2007-10-19T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/19\/sometimes-occasionally-very-occassionally-andrew-sullivan-is-right\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:09:00","slug":"sometimes-occasionally-very-occassionally-andrew-sullivan-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/19\/sometimes-occasionally-very-occassionally-andrew-sullivan-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, Occasionally, VERY Occassionally, Andrew Sullivan is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/10\/watching-larry-.html\">writing about Larry Craig&#8217;s self delusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Craig was seeking in that toilet stall a connection, a shard of intimacy, that the world would not give him, or that he could not give himself. No one should have to live without that intimacy and dignity &#8211; no one. Living a life like that &#8211; a deeply lonely, compromised, painful interior existence &#8211; is a very sophisticated form of hell. No human can keep it up for ever. No human should have to keep it up for ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Larry Craig is not <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">in<\/span> the closet, he <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> the closet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time writing about Larry Craig&#8217;s self delusion. Craig was seeking in that toilet stall a connection, a shard of intimacy, that the world would not give him, or that he could not give himself. No one should have to live without that intimacy and dignity &#8211; no one. Living a life like that &#8211; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}