{"id":2443286,"date":"2019-04-22T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/a-beaton-column-i-can-agree-with\/"},"modified":"2019-04-23T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:28:01","slug":"a-beaton-column-i-can-agree-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/a-beaton-column-i-can-agree-with\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beaton column I can agree with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A compliment to Glenn Beaton \u2014 I am almost always totally disagree with his views. On Easter Sunday, though, he produced an excellent column with which I fully agree (<a id=\"N0x1698240N0x1690b10:N0x1698240N0x16930a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/glenn-k-beaton-in-an-age-of-terror-what-is-the-responsibility-of-islam\/\">\u201cIn an age of terror, what is the responsibility of Islam?\u201d<\/a> The Aspen Times).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">His concluding paragraphs said everything: \u201cIn short, the responsibility of Muslims is the same as the responsibility of Jews, Christians and all other people of faith and civilized secularists. In the battle against violent bigotry, there\u2019s no middle ground. You\u2019re either with us or against us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cBe with us. Be our brothers and sisters in our battle for humanity. We want you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On a day when more than 200 were killed in Sri Lanka, we must all redouble our efforts to fight for humanity and against those opposed whatever their color and what ever their religion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Mr. Beaton, I will read your columns with a more open mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Philip Verleger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Denver<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/a-beaton-column-i-can-agree-with\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compliment to Glenn Beaton \u2014 I am almost always totally disagree with his views. On Easter Sunday, though, he produced an excellent column with which I fully agree (\u201cIn an age of terror, what is the responsibility of Islam?\u201d The Aspen Times). His concluding paragraphs said everything: \u201cIn short, the responsibility of Muslims is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 04:04:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}