{"id":3311,"date":"2009-03-05T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2009-03-05T16:03:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:03:25","slug":"about-right-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3311","title":{"rendered":"About Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d wandered over to This Post, Are You a Christian Hipster?<\/a>  And scanning his blog page, and down the right hand column where he lists the artists and thinkers who have shaped him, I came across…<\/p>\n

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In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost
\nlayers of frailty men want to be good
\nand want to be loved. Indeed, most of their
\nvices are attempted short cuts to love.
\nWhen a man comes to die, no matter what his talents
\nand influence and genius, if he dies unloved
\nhis life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.<\/em><\/p>\n

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden<\/p>\n

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Yeah.  This.<\/p>\n

What Steinbeck wrote about Sinclair Lewis in Travels With Charlie has haunted me ever since I read it back when I was a kid.  It was like a premonition.  I’ve been afraid of it ever since.  But no use being afraid of your fate…\n<\/p>\n

[Update…]<\/em>  He’s a Proposition 8 supporter<\/a>.  I guess it’s still hip to be a bigot.  Hating your gay neighbor must be that 11th commandment I keep hearing about…\n<\/p>\n

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I’d wandered over to This Post, Are You a Christian Hipster?  And scanning his blog page, and down the right hand column where he lists the artists and thinkers who have shaped him, I came across…   In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-dumpsville-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}