{"id":1281,"date":"2007-01-08T06:43:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-information\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T11:43:28","slug":"the-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-information","title":{"rendered":"The information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, for one, find it refreshing when a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/01\/07\/news\/poland.php\">scandal in the Catholic church<\/a> doesn&#8217;t involve the rape of an underaged boy.<\/p>\n<p>This story &#8212; about the newly appointed archbishop of Warsaw having to step down because he was informing for the secret police back in the &#8217;60s &#8212; reminds me of Timothy Garton Ash&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679777857?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=virtualmemories-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0679777857\">The File<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0679777857\" \/>, in which he checked out the Stasi&#8217;s records on him after East Germany&#8217;s truth commission made that stuff available. I recall Ash marveling over the sheer volume of reports, and their utter minutiae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, for one, find it refreshing when a scandal in the Catholic church doesn&#8217;t involve the rape of an underaged boy. This story &#8212; about the newly appointed archbishop of Warsaw having to step down because he was informing for the secret police back in the &#8217;60s &#8212; reminds me of Timothy Garton Ash&#8217;s book &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-information\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The information&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[18,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-implicit","category-religion","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-kF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}