{"id":136,"date":"2008-09-09T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-09-09T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:05:25","slug":"context-and-why-its-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2008\/09\/09\/context-and-why-its-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Context, and why it’s important"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today just about every news outlet I can see is carrying a story on Sarah Palin announcing that the Iraq war is, “a task that is from God”. Everyone’s referencing the same quote — but unfortunately, they’re all misquoting<\/a> it.<\/p>\n

So here’s the full quote:<\/p>\n

Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now watch this YouTube clip<\/a>. Wait… Starting at ‘our national leaders’ is definitely an omission of important context<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyone who’s remotely skilled in conversation could condense this down to: “Pray … that our leaders … are sending [our military men and women] out on a task that is from God.” There’s a huge difference between claiming that a task is from God, and asking people to pray that it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m still not sure on my opinion of Palin, McCain, or even Obama for that matter, so hearing the truth about the candidates is important to me — can’t we at least avoid putting words into their mouths?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today just about every news outlet I can see is carrying a story on Sarah Palin announcing that the Iraq war is, “a task that is from God”. Everyone’s referencing the same quote — but unfortunately, they’re all misquoting it. So here’s the full quote: Pray for our military men and women who are striving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rants","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}