{"id":48797,"date":"2013-04-19T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48797"},"modified":"2013-04-19T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T17:00:54","slug":"differing-with-your-family-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48797","title":{"rendered":"Differing With Your Family On Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager said on his radio show April 18, 2013: &#8220;Both of my boys are conservative but my extended family is overwhelmingly liberal. I have to tell you. I was back in New Jersey. I love my family. That&#8217;s my example of our need to understand there are good people on both sides. I just have to think of my extended family. My niece&#8217;s son is 11. He&#8217;s one of these kids who thinks a lot. He&#8217;s also guileless. He&#8217;s completely non-jaded and completely open with what he&#8217;s feeling. He walks over to me, &#8216;Uncle Dennis, did you vote for Mitt Romney?&#8217; I said yes. &#8216;Are you an extreme Republican?&#8217; I said, &#8216;Well, maybe so. I am Republican and extremely committed to being Republican.&#8217; And then he says in front of his poor dad who I adore, &#8216;My dad said that Romney would ruin the country.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8220;So you can see the poor kid&#8217;s wheels turning. He loves Uncle Dennis. He obviously loves his dad. It was a terrific lesson for him. His parents were completely supportive as I was that his parents and Uncle Dennis differ on politics but we&#8217;re all good people. I believe this means he will end up conservative. If, from an early age, you believe that Republicans can be nice people, half the reason for being a Democrat is removed. Oh, you can be nice and a Republican? That means I&#8217;ll listen to arguments and not just dismiss Republicans as bad. You&#8217;ve got to get your nieces and nephews to believe you&#8217;re a nice person and half the battle is won.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager said on his radio show April 18, 2013: &#8220;Both of my boys are conservative but my extended family is overwhelmingly liberal. I have to tell you. I was back in New Jersey. I love my family. That&#8217;s my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48798,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48797\/revisions\/48798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}