{"id":11,"date":"2003-02-04T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2003-02-04T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2006-06-29T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T16:32:47","slug":"breaking-points-and-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Breaking points and fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: The below was written in a moment of inspiration fueled by caffeine, and while I&#8217;d love to talk about it more, I need to devote the time to other issues. The book, like all of my ideas, will probably be delayed.<br \/>\n-Kevin<\/p>\n<p>While walking through Barnes and Noble the other day, I observed several titles for sale: Mr. Hannity of Hannity and Colmes authoring a book on how liberals have been defeated, John Savage talking about almost the same thing, the O&#8217;Reilly factor (from the former host of Inside Edition), and Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s books.  It struck me that there were a ton of books espousing &#8220;victory&#8221; over liberalism. First of all, I didn&#8217;t realize that it was a war between liberal vs. conservative. Unfortunately, a lot of other people feel that way.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the issue that I have is that I believe the majority of Americans are not polemicists for either conservative or liberal views. I believe that, by and large, Americans are moderates in most of our views on things. There are hot button differentiators &#8212; abortion, homosexuality, etc., but by and large, moderate voices don&#8217;t have a place in the media. (Note: there is no such thing as &#8220;liberal media bias&#8221;. I&#8217;ll provide a link later on that.)<\/p>\n<p>So, I think that my dream of writing a book is going to be realized in trying to set forth the moderate view of America, one that isn&#8217;t all Republican or all Democratic, and one that tries not to get involved in a war with either side. This may be impossible, but I don&#8217;t think that many other people are willing to try.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in what people think about things. Let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: The below was written in a moment of inspiration fueled by caffeine, and while I&#8217;d love to talk about it more, I need to devote the time to other issues. The book, like all of my ideas, will probably be delayed. -Kevin While walking through Barnes and Noble the other day, I observed several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=11\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breaking points and fuel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}