{"id":567,"date":"2012-02-05T00:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T22:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/?p=567"},"modified":"2012-08-01T18:57:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:57:01","slug":"the-10-republican-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2012\/02\/05\/the-10-republican-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Republican commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming presidential election in the USA brings some interesting candidates on the republican front. We have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mitt Romney, who believes in a church founded by one Joseph Smith, who was directed to a buried book written on golden plates, containing the religious history of an ancient people. Conveniently, the angel took the plates back once Smith had translated them, but in a nutshell, american indians are in fact descendants of jews who emigrated to America. Even those with a faint knowledge of the bible will recognise the plagiarism.<\/li>\n<li>Ron Paul, raised a lutheran but now a church-going baptist, appears to be saner, but nonetheless endorses using the 1st amendment to ensure that religious speech is above the law (as long as it&#8217;s lutheran\/baptist, of course).<\/li>\n<li>Newt Gringrich, also raised as a lutheran but now a catholic, tellingly said in a\u00a02011 appearance in Columbus, Ohio: &#8220;In America, religious belief is being challenged by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What, I ask myself, is the difference between these fruit-cakes and muslim extremists? Or have they all forgotten <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treaty_of_Tripoli\">the treaty of Tripoli<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming presidential election in the USA brings some interesting candidates on the republican front. We have: Mitt Romney, who believes in a church founded by one Joseph Smith, who was directed to a buried book written on golden plates, <a href='https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2012\/02\/05\/the-10-republican-commandments\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}