{"id":16130,"date":"2012-07-06T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16130"},"modified":"2012-07-06T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:56:57","slug":"the-court-and-public-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16130","title":{"rendered":"The Court And Public Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I'm more surprised by the amount of interest people have taken in <a href='http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2012\/07\/epistemic-closure-at-the-supreme-court.html'>the process<\/a> by which the decision was made than I am by the fact that, within a closed group of people, there are cliques, politicking, conflicting ideologies, and bruised egos.<\/p>\n<p>It feels like people assumed the Justices are black-robed Vulcans, dispensing cold, logical Truth when asked to, and not people who are subject to all the frailties and faults of every other human who has ever existed.<\/p>\n<p>But, I'm playing Grumpy Old-ish Man today, so pay no attention to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I'm more surprised by the amount of interest people have taken in the process by which the decision was made than I am by the fact that, within a closed group of people, there are cliques, politicking, conflicting ideologies, and bruised egos. It feels like people assumed the Justices are black-robed Vulcans, dispensing cold, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}