{"id":1090,"date":"2006-05-10T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:45","slug":"the_ny_times_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"The NY Times On The Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/10\/world\/middleeast\/10iran.html?ex=1304913600&#038;en=1cc07cb5e811eaff&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\" target=\"browser\">the New York Times<\/a> first read of the letter I discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/008595.php\" target=\"browser\">below<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The 18-page letter, whose text was made available to The New York Times by United Nations diplomats on Tuesday, did not offer any concrete proposals for dealing with the crisis, but suggested that the United States give up its liberal, democratic, secular system and turn more toward religion.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The question is, of course, which one?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not locked into the interpretation that Ahmadinejad&#8217;s letter proposes that Bush convert to Islam &#8211; but there&#8217;s a clear reading that certainly suggests it, and I&#8217;m interested in the fact that the question appears nowhere in the Times article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times talks about the letter. They don&#8217;t mention the suggestion that Bush convert to Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}