{"id":624,"date":"2004-09-29T10:02:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/29\/the-discussion-continues\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:13","slug":"the-discussion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/29\/the-discussion-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Discussion Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a book review over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/9\/20\/24655\/5647\">Daily Kos<\/a> of Lakoff&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1931498717\/ref=pd_sim_books_1\/104-6678260-7488703?v=glance&amp;s=books\">Don&#8217;t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate &#8212; The Essential Guide for Progressives<\/a>.  Kos&#8217; post provides an excerpt which explores how different conceptualizations of family can explain the gulf between conservatives and liberals.  It&#8217;s an excellent review.  <\/p>\n<p>It also parallels a comment left by my brother on a recent post <a href=\"\/mindfullife\/archives\/000619.html\">here<\/a>.  He pointed out that the argument isn&#8217;t about religion as much as it is about differences in types of worldview: progressivism, fundamentalism, conservatism, liberalism.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate that readers are weighing in with responses to these posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a book review over at Daily Kos of Lakoff&#8217;s book, Don&#8217;t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate &#8212; The Essential Guide for Progressives. Kos&#8217; post provides an excerpt which explores how different conceptualizations of family can explain the gulf between conservatives and liberals. It&#8217;s an excellent review. It also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12796,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/12796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}