{"id":22,"date":"2008-06-15T12:57:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T16:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:35","slug":"local-neighborhood-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/06\/local-neighborhood-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Local Neighborhood Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" title=\"The Family by Jeff Sharlet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"The Family by Jeff Sharlet\" width=\"82\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><em>Religion Dispatches<\/em> has just put up my review of Jeff Sharlet&#8217;s book, <em>The Family<\/em>, about a secret Christian political organization headquartered in my hometown of Arlington, Virginia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like the emperor&#8217;s new clothes, power is invisible to those who don&#8217;t happen to know about it. One could, as I did, spend eighteen years growing up less than a mile away from one of the great centers of theocratic power in the United States without knowing it was there. Tucked away in a quiet suburban neighborhood (as begin so many horror stories), its global influence can&#8217;t be seen from the street. I&#8217;ve been there and looked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/Gui\/Content.aspx?Page=AR&amp;Id=289&amp;SP=1#\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"..\/articles\/The Family.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rowboat.smallsclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" title=\"The Family by Jeff Sharlet\" src=\"http:\/\/rowboat.smallsclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"The Family by Jeff Sharlet\" width=\"82\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><em>Religion Dispatches<\/em> has just put up my review of Jeff Sharlet&#8217;s book, <em>The Family<\/em>, about a secret Christian political organization headquartered in my hometown of Arlington, Virginia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like the emperor&#8217;s new clothes, power is invisible to those who don&#8217;t happen to know about it. One could, as I did, spend eighteen years growing up less than a mile away from one of the great centers of theocratic power in the United States without knowing it was there. Tucked away in a quiet suburban neighborhood (as begin so many horror stories), its global influence can&#8217;t be seen from the street. I&#8217;ve been there and looked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/Gui\/Content.aspx?Page=AR&amp;Id=289&amp;SP=1#\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"..\/articles\/The Family.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,7],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-books","tag-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}