{"id":812,"date":"2008-09-21T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/politics\/american-thinker"},"modified":"2008-09-21T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T15:56:37","slug":"american-thinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"American Thinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This link is from Richard Baehr one of the smart people on the Country Walkers hiking trip in Maine.\u00a0 Rich writes articles for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/\">AmericanThinker.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 a political blog that appears to be more thoughtful than most. \u00a0 It is an excellent counterpoint to The Huffington Post or the Daily Kos.\u00a0 Having said that I see that it reflects my confirmation bias.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t hate conservative ideas enough for Huffington or Kos and I don&#8217;t hate liberal ideas enough for Limbaugh.\u00a0 American Thinker might be the middle thoughtful ground.\u00a0 I thought I had found it on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Politico.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Their articles are somewhat balanced but the bloggers on Politico tend to be ranters. Anyway if you want to try reading a political blog (and maybe commenting) try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AmericanThinker.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This link is from Richard Baehr one of the smart people on the Country Walkers hiking trip in Maine.\u00a0 Rich writes articles for AmericanThinker.com\u00a0 a political blog that appears to be more thoughtful than most. \u00a0 It is an excellent counterpoint to The Huffington Post or the Daily Kos.\u00a0 Having said that I see that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-d6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}