{"id":546,"date":"2005-05-26T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=546"},"modified":"2005-12-10T16:35:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T21:35:28","slug":"left-behind-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/left-behind-2","title":{"rendered":"Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Thompson writes about his departure from the cultural left wing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’ll admit my politics have shifted in recent years, as have America’s political landscape and cultural horizon. Who would have guessed that the U.S. senator with today’s best voting record on human rights would be not Ted Kennedy or Barbara Boxer but Kansas Republican Sam Brownback?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it’s in the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, no less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Thompson writes about his departure from the cultural left wing: I’ll admit my politics have shifted in recent years, as have America’s political landscape and cultural horizon. Who would have guessed that the U.S. senator with today’s best voting record on human rights would be not Ted Kennedy or Barbara Boxer but Kansas Republican … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Left Behind”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-8O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":967,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/borat-at-cannes","url_meta":{"origin":546,"position":0},"title":"Borat at Cannes","author":"Gil","date":"May 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Forget M:I III! 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