{"id":389,"date":"2003-01-27T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2003-01-27T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2003-01-27T14:17:35","modified_gmt":"2003-01-27T19:17:35","slug":"luminous-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"luminous awe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am not surprised you oppose abortion, Robert. But the thing is, from your name, I suspect you are a guy. And since you are a guy, I assume you have a penis. And sorry, but if you have a penis, as far as I am concerned, you don&#8217;t have a vote on the issue.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/tims_world\/id23_m.htm\">Tim<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I revisited Tim&#8217;s journal for the first time in a long time today.&nbsp; The excerpt is not indicative of everything he writes, it just tickled my latent matriarchal tendencies.&nbsp; Tim was responding to a venom-spewer&#8217;s remarks left in his guestbook.&nbsp; For three years his online journal has often inspired very vigorous debates, absent vitriol.&nbsp; Despite the intensity of the discussions he inspires, it seems hate speech is a fairly uncommon thing in Tim&#8217;s guestbook.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I forgot how much I love this guy.&nbsp; He&#8217;s not always right.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t know everything.&nbsp; But I thank god that he writes as much as he does&#151;I would never know him otherwise.&nbsp; He has a true heart and a brilliant mind.&nbsp; Such things as trueness of heart are found mostly in mythic characters like Superman, and Robin Hood.&nbsp; And brilliance of intellect is, unfortunately, often seen in service to some very dubious endeavors, like advancing arch-conservatism, or prosecuting various military agressions.&nbsp; To combine the light of a true heart with the light of a great mind is to illuminate the face of God.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/tims_world\/id23_m.htm\">go there<\/a> and read a bit.&nbsp; If I could quote the whole thing here, I would.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not surprised you oppose abortion, Robert. But the thing is, from your name, I suspect you are a guy. And since you are a guy, I assume you have a penis. And sorry, but if you have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[776,452],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-online-journal","tag-robin-hood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}