{"id":1821,"date":"2010-10-31T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T17:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2010-10-31T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T17:39:57","slug":"rally-to-restore-sanity-andor-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/10\/31\/rally-to-restore-sanity-andor-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally to Restore Sanity and\/or Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Jon Stewart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rallytorestoresanity.com\/\">Rally to Restore Sanity and\/or Fear<\/a>, and while somewhat entertaining to watch on TV, I didn&#8217;t really find it that noteworthy until the last fifteen minutes.  That was when Jon Stewart gave the speech linked below, filled with a fairly cogent set of observations about how important it is to get past the so-called &#8220;divisions&#8221; in society today.  Sadly it was a comedian delivering this message rather than someone in a position of power, but hopefully others may notice between 100,000 and 300,000 people (the semi-official estimate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20021284-503544.html\">215,000<\/a>) cheering on the National Mall and see fit to take up similarly reasonable messages.<\/p>\n<p>It takes until the 2:49 mark to get through the &#8220;thanks for coming&#8221; and &#8220;thanks to everyone who set this up&#8221; bits, but after that he says some fairly eloquent things.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<embed style='display:block' src='http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:363864' width='360' height='301' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'><\/embed>\n<\/div>\n<p>On a much less serious note, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Father_Guido_Sarducci\">Father Guido Sarducci<\/a> gave a pretty amusing benediction to open the rally:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<embed style='display:block' src='http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:363847' width='360' height='301' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'><\/embed>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Jon Stewart&#8217;s Rally to Restore Sanity and\/or Fear, and while somewhat entertaining to watch on TV, I didn&#8217;t really find it that noteworthy until the last fifteen minutes. That was when Jon Stewart gave the speech linked below, filled with a fairly cogent set of observations about how important it is to get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/10\/31\/rally-to-restore-sanity-andor-fear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rally to Restore Sanity and\/or Fear&#8221;<\/span><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}