{"id":2793,"date":"2009-08-06T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/jim-scarantino-finds-peace\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T08:21:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:21:16","slug":"jim-scarantino-finds-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/jim-scarantino-finds-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Scarantino Finds Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two weeks ago, I called Jim Scarantino the biggest jackass in New Mexico. Today, he has written something that couldn\u2019t be more different from the angry tone of his usual political column. Jim found peace and it infuses this column. I hope \u2013 I would pray, if I prayed \u2013 his next column is as free of anger and hate. One would begin to look forward to reading his column.<\/p>\n<p>Will those readers who like Scarantino\u2019s Limbaugh impression be put off by this column? I can imagine them yelling \u201ctraitor! terrorist!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>peace,   <br \/>mjh<\/p>\n<p>Arabs Continue To Find N.M. a Welcoming Place   <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/cgi-bin\/email_reporter.pl?staff=yes\">By Jim Scarantino<\/a>    <br \/>For the Journal    <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/guest_columns\/06215640955opinionguestcolumns08-06-09.htm\">http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/guest_columns\/06215640955opinionguestcolumns08-06-09.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two weeks ago, I called Jim Scarantino the biggest jackass in New Mexico. Today, he has written something that couldn\u2019t be more different from the angry tone of his usual political column. Jim found peace and it infuses this column. I hope \u2013 I would pray, if I prayed \u2013 his next column is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/jim-scarantino-finds-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jim Scarantino Finds Peace<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}