{"id":77781,"date":"2012-07-24T03:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=77781"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:41:40","slug":"dont-bore-us-with-your-puritanical-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=77781","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Bore Us With Your Puritanical Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/07\/45468.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The New York Times is receiving pushback from its constituents for having the audacity to explain that changes in marriage patterns are playing a huge role in the growth of income inequality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Step outa line, the man come, and take you away&#8230;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Katie Roiphe pushes back in a piece for <em>Slate<\/em>. She characterizes the piece as \u201canother puritanical and alarmist rumination on the decline of the American family disguised as a straight-news story.\u201d Presumably, Roiphe believes that income inequality is a legitimate story topic, but its causes aren\u2019t, unless they conform to the feminist narrative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My, what a surprise! Aren&#8217;t you surprised? I&#8217;m sure surprised. (<em>Slate<\/em> really ought to be renamed <em>Prate<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. The New York Times is receiving pushback from its constituents for having the audacity to explain that changes in marriage patterns are playing a huge role in the growth of income inequality. &#8216;Step outa line, the man come, and take you away&#8230;.&#8217; Katie Roiphe pushes back in a piece for Slate. She characterizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414948,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77781\/revisions\/414948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}