{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Reader John", "icon": "https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/avatar.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/", "feed_url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/18/it-should-come.html", "content_html": "
\n\n\nIt should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence, speaking on Fox News, March 15, 2024
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-18T12:59:14-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/18/it-should-come.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/15/highly-recommended-damon.html", "content_html": "Highly recommended: Damon Linker, Exploring the Sources of Biden’s Struggles (likely paywall).
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-15T16:30:44-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/15/highly-recommended-damon.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/15/finished-reading-jessica.html", "content_html": "Finished reading Jessica Hooten Wilson, Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence. 📚
\n\nReading Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz. 📚
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-15T05:46:09-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/15/finished-reading-jessica.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/13/hagia-sophia-classical.html", "content_html": "Hagia Sophia Classical Academy has been a major claimant on my time and resources over the last 8 years or so, in large part because my grandchildren were attending. I first learned of it from an Ancient Faith Radio interview, and now there’s an updated interview, should such things be of interest.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-13T13:37:45-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/13/hagia-sophia-classical.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/06/093404.html", "content_html": "💬
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-06T09:34:04-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/06/093404.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/05/improbably-im-reading.html", "content_html": "Improbably, I’m reading Jessica Hooten Wilson, Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence. 📚 I’ve met and chatted with Jessica IRL, and she writes quite well, so this seems like good preparation to re-read Walker Percy.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-05T21:14:38-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/05/improbably-im-reading.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/05/coming-back-from.html", "content_html": "Coming back from an 8 point halftime deficit on the road at #12 Illinois, #2 Purdue wins by 6, securing the outright conference championship for the second year in a row. Great conference, great game, two very different halves. I’m a happy camper.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-05T21:12:32-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/05/coming-back-from.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/05/i-think-i.html", "content_html": "I think I may have achieved flashes of insight here. March 5, 2024 – Tipsy Teetotaler ن
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-05T11:24:15-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/05/i-think-i.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/05/o-be-still.html", "content_html": "O, Be still my beating heart! This changes everything, doesn’t it? Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson Are Related: EXCLUSIVE
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-05T09:39:01-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/05/o-be-still.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/04/it-was-a.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-04T13:55:09-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/04/it-was-a.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/03/todays-doonesbury-cartoon.html", "content_html": "[I]t was a perfectly defensible position to hold that Trump should be disqualified. What was indefensible was the air of swaggering certainty that permeated so many of those takes. … self-evident. Common sense. Obvious. Indisputable. Automatic.
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Today’s Doonesbury cartoon knocked the ball out of the park.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-03T07:46:49-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/03/todays-doonesbury-cartoon.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/02/i-was-afraid.html", "content_html": "I was afraid this would be another Banksy type graffiti artist. I really dislike grafitti.
\n\nNot at all. Sheer whimsical delight. Meet Frankey, the Street Artist Delighting Amsterdam - The New York Times (shared link, no paywall)
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-02T15:59:14-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/02/i-was-afraid.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/02/finished-martin-gurri.html", "content_html": "Finished Martin Gurri, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium. 📚
\n\nA fascinating analysis of how we got polarized (the internet made all emperors’ clothes disappear) and what it will take for things to settle down. Recommended.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-02T05:54:56-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/02/finished-martin-gurri.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/03/01/an-idea-for.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-01T10:20:23-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/03/01/an-idea-for.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/28/piers-morgan-did.html", "content_html": "An idea for a drinking game, if you don’t want to live to see the next president: take a drink any time someone says “future of democracy” in the lead-up to November.
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Piers Morgan did a long interview with John Mearsheimer. Bad news: So deep is my antipathy to Morgan that I don’t dare watch it for fear of throwing my computer across the room. Good news: I think I’ve understood Mearsheimer’s insights fairly well already.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-28T09:24:57-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/28/piers-morgan-did.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/25/my-friend-terry.html", "content_html": "My friend Terry Cowan (Friend? Sure. I narrowly missed meeting him IRL once), a history teacher and obsessive traveler in Georgia, has a masterful summary of the situation in Ukraine.
\n\nWe have been sorely misled by ill-informed officials and war profiteers.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-25T16:29:00-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/25/my-friend-terry.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/25/on-proper-love.html", "content_html": "On proper love of country – Tipsy Teetotaler ن
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-25T06:55:41-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/25/on-proper-love.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/24/reading-martin-gurri.html", "content_html": "Reading Martin Gurri, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium. 📚
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-24T05:59:43-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/24/reading-martin-gurri.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/23/finished-reading-allan.html", "content_html": "Finished reading Allan C. Carlson, Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies–and Why They Disappeared. 📚A helpful introduction to third ways that should inspire us still today (even if one of the implied two ways is gone).
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-23T22:00:58-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/23/finished-reading-allan.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/23/bless-oh-lord.html", "content_html": "\n\n\nBless, O Lord, all these prayerful ascetics, who cense the slumbering world with their life like incense.
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St. Nicolai Velemirovich, Prayers by the Lake, number LXXVI.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-23T20:36:23-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/23/bless-oh-lord.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/23/venting.html", "title": "Venting", "content_html": "We do things differently in the Hoosier State.
\n\nNear Whitestown, 3 children were buried in the mid-19th century near what’s now a state highway. Cars repeatedly knock down the tombstones.
\n\nBut fear not! As solemnly reported on TV news, their ancestors are going to get the graves moved into a nearby cemetery. One of the self-identified ancestors even appeared on camera, and looked awfully good for someone 200 or more years old.
\n\nIs this a form of dyslexia? Spoonerism?
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-23T18:30:09-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/23/venting.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/23/080855.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-02-23T08:08:55-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/23/080855.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/22/132732.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-02-22T13:27:32-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/22/132732.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/22/lest-i-forget.html", "content_html": "Lest I forget that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a nasty piece of work, there’s Religion Clause: Texas AG Seeks to Liquidate Catholic Agency Providing Services to Migrants
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-22T08:30:02-05:00", "url": "https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2024/02/22/lest-i-forget.html" }, { "id": "http://readerjohn.micro.blog/2024/02/20/any-social-medium.html", "content_html": "Any social medium where a guy with the handle “Turd Flinging Monkey” is an influencer with 80,000 followers is not a place I’d care to hang around. The Anti-Family Right by Matthew Schmitz.
\n\n(And don’t get me started on BAP)
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