{"id":520,"date":"2006-05-03T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/05\/520\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T05:12:00","slug":"520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/05\/520\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re <i>A Theory of Justice<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>by John Rawls<\/p>\n<p><i>In the beginning, you lived in a town. The town had many problems!<br>Rather than moving, you decided to come up with the idea for the best town ever. Going<br>all the way back to the original position, you created the idea for the best town ever!<br>Lo and behold, the best town ever looked almost identical to the town you lived in. You<br>decided to stay in the town. Now you resent people mistaking your refined thought<br>experiments for \u201cthe wall of stupidity\u201d in high school debate<br>rounds.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><br>Take the <a href=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/ia\/bquiz.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Book Quiz<\/a><br>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Blue Pyramid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re A Theory of Justice! by John Rawls In the beginning, you lived in a town. The town had many problems!Rather than moving, you decided to come up with the idea for the best town ever. 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