{"id":9013,"date":"2016-09-22T08:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:07:37","slug":"what-a-sane-voice-sounds-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9013","title":{"rendered":"What a sane voice sounds like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/deborah-ross-video-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"708\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/deborah-ross-video-1.jpg\" alt=\"deborah-ross-video\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/deborah-ross-video-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/deborah-ross-video-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/deborah-ross-video-1-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning in my news-reading routine, I came across this video made by the Raleigh News &#038; Observer. Deborah Ross, a Democrat who is running for the United States Senate from North Carolina against Republican Richard Burr, had met with the newspaper&#8217;s editorial board and was asked to talk to the camera about her vision for North Carolina. I was delighted to see that, 20 seconds into the video, she mentions Stokes County and the rally at which it was my privilege to introduce her.<\/p>\n<p>As for the voice of sanity, I hope you&#8217;ll watch the video and let Deborah Ross speak for herself. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article103169512.html\">Here&#8217;s a link to the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The voice of sanity and reason is such a quiet voice. It doesn&#8217;t rudely swindle us of our attention the way propaganda does, with noise, threats, scapegoating, and conspiracy theories designed to deceive us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RC-me-with-deborah-ross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RC-me-with-deborah-ross.jpg\" alt=\"rc-me-with-deborah-ross\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RC-me-with-deborah-ross.jpg 800w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RC-me-with-deborah-ross-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RC-me-with-deborah-ross-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning in my news-reading routine, I came across this video made by the Raleigh News &#038; Observer. Deborah Ross, a Democrat who is running for the United States Senate from North Carolina against Republican Richard Burr, had met with the newspaper&#8217;s editorial board and was asked to talk to the camera about her vision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9013\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What a sane voice sounds like&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9025,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions\/9025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}