{"id":605,"date":"2007-01-12T00:21:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/yeah_what_he_sa.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:35","slug":"yeah_what_he_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/yeah_what_he_sa.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, What He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crunchy-Cons-Birkenstocked-evangelical-homeschooling\/dp\/1400050642\">Crunchy Cons<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/crunchycon\/\">blogger over at beliefnet<\/a>, had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6817201\">editorial<\/a> on NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered this afternoon that was excellent.  He and I are the same age (he&#8217;s got me by 6 months actually) and he relates his experience growing up as a Conservative, his first awareness of politics being Carter and the Iranian hostage crisis, Reagan as his political hero of sorts, his lack of understanding the hippies of the 60&#8217;s and more.<br \/>\nI can totally relate to his experience, from being a full blown conservative believer all the way up to Bush&#8217;s election (well, almost) to the (ironic) disillusionment with the administration and the war in Iraq.  I can&#8217;t do it justice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6817201\">go give it a listen<\/a> (the button at the top of the page).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons and blogger over at beliefnet, had an editorial on NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered this afternoon that was excellent. 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