{"id":70,"date":"2011-03-01T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T22:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-03-01T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T22:45:22","slug":"assignment-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/2011\/03\/01\/assignment-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2011\/02\/27\/fair-play\/\">Fair Play<\/a> by John Holbo<\/p>\n<p>One of the most provocative, thoughtful blog posts I have read. Holdo presents two distinct sides to the debate on organized labor, and does a thorough and exceptional job of breaking them down.<\/p>\n<p>I had originally gone through the top 5 politics blogs on Technocrati, and was not impressed by anything I found.\u00a0The author wrote a post FAR different than anything you&#8217;ll find on the major &#8220;journalistic&#8221; (to borrow from Prof Nyblade) blogs. I can get my news from anywhere, and usually all at once (scroll down google news and you get the general idea of what is going on in a day).<\/p>\n<p>A post like this though forces you to critically think about the debate. I like thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Holbo asks questions that actually engage the reader; I found myself really pondering my own views on where I stand with regards to the situation in professional sports and elsewhere in society.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2011\/03\/preparing_for_war_in_australia.html\">Preparing for War in Australia?<\/a> by Randall Hoven<\/p>\n<p>If the piece above was intelligent, this one sets the benchmark for stupidity. Great example of the problem with blogs; it gives everyone a voice, no matter how incompetent it may be.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to the style; too many rhetorical questions that don&#8217;t really ask the reader anything. Hard to follow what Hoven is really getting at, the title is terrible (but maybe has the &#8220;what in the hell is this guy talking about&#8221; factor), and he speaks to his reader&#8217;s like they are children.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention, the quote that sparked his rant is taken WAY out of context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Fair Play by John Holbo One of the most provocative, thoughtful blog posts I have read. Holdo presents two distinct sides to the debate on organized labor, and does a thorough and exceptional job of breaking them down. I had originally gone through the top 5 politics blogs on Technocrati, and was not impressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}