{"id":774,"date":"2002-07-03T16:51:21","date_gmt":"2002-07-03T23:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/peggy-likes-blogs\/"},"modified":"2002-07-03T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2002-07-03T23:51:21","slug":"peggy-likes-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/03\/peggy-likes-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Peggy likes blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/pnoonan\/?id=110001937\">OpinionJournal &#8211; Peggy Noonan<\/a> wrote a nice little piece today on what&#8217;s right with America. Among her favorite things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blogging. The 24-7 opinion sites that offer free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange. Thousands of independent information entrepreneurs are informing, arguing, adding information. Imagine if we&#8217;d had them in 1776: &#8220;As I wrote in yesterday&#8217;s lead item on SamAdams.com, my well meaning cousin John continues his grammatical nitpicking with Jefferson (link requires registration) &#8216;Inalienable,&#8217; &#8216;unalienable,&#8217; whatever. Boys, let&#8217;s fight. Start the war.&#8221; Blogs may one hard day become clearinghouses for civil support and information when other lines, under new pressure, break down. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Impeccable judgment, strong common sense, and eloquence. Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickdenton.org\/archives\/2002_07_01_archive.htm#85219586\">Nick Denton<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; OpinionJournal &#8211; Peggy Noonan wrote a nice little piece today on what&#8217;s right with America. Among her favorite things: Blogging. The 24-7 opinion sites that offer free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange. Thousands of independent information entrepreneurs are informing, arguing, adding information. Imagine if we&#8217;d had them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/03\/peggy-likes-blogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peggy likes blogs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-cu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}