{"id":2658,"date":"2011-03-04T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/03\/rachel-held-evans-open-letter-to-the-open-letter\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:06:00","slug":"rachel-held-evans-open-letter-to-the-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/03\/rachel-held-evans-open-letter-to-the-open-letter.html","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Held Evans’ Open Letter to the Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Rachel Held Evans has written an open letter\u2026to the genre of the open letter<\/a>. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Dear Open Letter, <\/p>\n

Seeing as how we don\u2019t actually know one another and personal letters don\u2019t generate any blog traffic, I\u2019ve decided to publicly air my grievances against you in a format that positions you as the powerful elite and me as the scrappy underdog willing to take you on. <\/p>\n

I will begin with a backhanded compliment, thanking you for making it easy for bloggers like me to issue one-way rants against the people we don\u2019t like while maintaining the appearance of a conversation. The compliment is just a formality intended to make me look generous. Don\u2019t worry; things are about to get ugly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click through to read the rest<\/a>. And don\u2019t miss the reply from The Open Letter in the comments section!<\/p>\n

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Rachel Held Evans has written an open letter\u2026to the genre of the open letter. Here\u2019s how it begins: Dear Open Letter, Seeing as how we don\u2019t actually know one another and personal letters don\u2019t generate any blog traffic, I\u2019ve decided to publicly air my grievances against you in a format that positions you as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRachel Held Evans' Open Letter to the Open Letter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rachel Held Evans has written an open letter...to the genre of the open letter. 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