{"id":23975,"date":"2014-02-04T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=23975"},"modified":"2015-03-19T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T04:28:53","slug":"march-for-life-discussion-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/march-for-life-discussion-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"March For Life Discussion: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As my friends (and Twitter followers!) will know, I was in Washington DC last week\u00a0for the <a href=\"http:\/\/marchforlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">March For Life<\/a>. While I was there, I posted the following meme on this blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-22-at-9.29.28-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23902 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-22-at-9.29.28-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-01-22 at 9.29.28 PM\" width=\"358\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-22-at-9.29.28-PM.png 596w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-22-at-9.29.28-PM-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blog entry in which the picture was posted was shared on Facebook and received a certain amount of negative feedback from some of my friends. A lively discussion ensued. Since I had quite a full itinerary while on the East Coast, I didn&#8217;t really have much time to monitor the conversation thread over the course of the week.<\/p>\n<p>My final night in Washington DC concluded with an <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/tag\/audrey-assad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey Assad<\/a> concert and a night of swing dancing, after which my mate John dropped me off at Reagan Airport to catch my 6:30am flight home. Now with some time on my hands, I was able to review the Facebook discussion thread&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Coming a little late to the party, it was clear that some tempers were already frayed. Although I offered a few comments on the thread, I decided that it would be good to sit down and write a series of blog posts, addressing some of the features of the discussion and some of the issues which were raised.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting these posts over the next few days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my friends (and Twitter followers!) will know, I was in Washington DC last week\u00a0for the March For Life. While I was there, I posted the following meme on this blog: The blog entry in which the picture was posted was shared on Facebook and received a certain amount of negative feedback from some of my friends. A lively discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[232,2969,2486,1728,1601],"class_list":["post-23975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-abortion","tag-featured","tag-march-for-life-2014","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23975"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53986,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975\/revisions\/53986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}