{"id":412,"date":"2011-02-18T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-02-18T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T00:34:00","slug":"mike-huckabee-on-politics-christianity-israel-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee on politics, Christianity, Israel : The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/06\/28\/100628fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all\">Mike Huckabee on politics, Christianity, Israel : The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In defiance of libertarian laissez-faire, Huckabee has extended his Christian vision to include the poor. \u201cIf there are a certain number of kids from single-parent homes who aren\u2019t going to school and don\u2019t have health care, you can say that\u2019s not government\u2019s job,\u201d Huckabee told me. \u201cWell, sweet and fine! But you know what? If the kid\u2019s sitting outside the door of the hospital choking with asthma, do I sit there and say, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t think, philosophically, government should get involved\u2019? I\u2019d much rather the kid get help than I sit around and say I\u2019m so pure in my ideology.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Huckabee on politics, Christianity, Israel : The New Yorker In defiance of libertarian laissez-faire, Huckabee has extended his Christian vision to include the poor. \u201cIf there are a certain &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mike Huckabee on politics, Christianity, Israel : The New Yorker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}