{"id":1261,"date":"2009-12-02T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2009-12-02T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T17:34:00","slug":"this-blog-post-is-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"This Blog Post is Inappropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Skidelsky nails it: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/2009\/11\/words-that-think-for-us\/\">smarmy bureaucratic coercion of the word &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldaily.com\/\">Arts &amp; Letters Daily<\/a>, in the blogroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Skidelsky nails it: the smarmy bureaucratic coercion of the word &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;. 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Clifton","date":"March 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Carol Christ bounced by Catholic collegeSanta Sabina college says that having the well-known Goddess thealogian on their campus would be \"inappropriate\".Online Catholics reports today that Dr Christ is associated with the so-called \u00b4Goddess\u00b4 spirituality, which is characterised by opponents as pre-Christian or pagan.They didn't know that? Why did they invite\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1626,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1626","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":1},"title":"Don&#8217;t Teach My Kid Greek Mythology","author":"Chas S. 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