{"id":5832,"date":"2012-01-24T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:14:10","slug":"how-to-make-a-silk-purse-out-of-a-sows-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/01\/how-to-make-a-silk-purse-out-of-a-sows-ear.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Make A Silk Purse Out of A Sow&#8217;s Ear"},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2012\/01\/Silk-Purse-and-the-Sow.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5835\" title=\"Silk Purse and the Sow\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2012\/01\/Silk-Purse-and-the-Sow-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s easy. Make an argument that serial marriage makes for a better President. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2012\/01\/20\/newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-might-make-strong-president-really\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fox News shares the wisdom here.<\/a> Which reminds me. Whoever said that about silk purses and sow\u2019s ears <a href=\"http:\/\/historywired.si.edu\/object.cfm?ID=535\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">didn\u2019t know \u2018nothin\u2019.<\/a> Afterall, \u2019tis the season for cognitive dissonance and fuzzy logic.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 That\u2019s easy. Make an argument that serial marriage makes for a better President. Fox News shares the wisdom here. Which reminds me. Whoever said that about silk purses and sow\u2019s ears didn\u2019t know \u2018nothin\u2019. Afterall, \u2019tis the season for cognitive dissonance and fuzzy logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[127,8,31,145,102],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-election-2012","tag-funstuff","tag-in-the-news","tag-irony","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Make A Silk Purse Out of A Sow&#039;s Ear<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; That&#039;s easy. Make an argument that serial marriage makes for a better President. Fox News shares the wisdom here. Which reminds me. 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