{"id":849,"date":"2009-04-01T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=849"},"modified":"2009-04-01T15:27:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:27:18","slug":"surreal-debate-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/04\/01\/surreal-debate-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Surreal Debate Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love or hate Bill Maher, but give him credit for pairing together people that you never ever see together.  This last installment has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hB3PXcvopYk\">Mos Def in a debate with Christopher Hitchens<\/a> over Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program.  While <a href=\"http:\/\/ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/hitchens_vs_mos_def.php\">Ta&#8217; Nehisi at the Atlantic<\/a> thought Mos Def came across looking paranoid and intellectually lazy, I think Hitchen&#8217;s comes off like an oaf, but I think he always comes off that way.  While you won&#8217;t see Mos Def at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxford-union.org\/\">Oxford Union<\/a>, he is posing questions that require answers.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hB3PXcvopYk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Read Ta&#8217; Nehisi&#8217;s post.  Good food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love or hate Bill Maher, but give him credit for pairing together people that you never ever see together. This last installment has Mos Def in a debate with Christopher Hitchens over Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program. While Ta&#8217; Nehisi at the Atlantic thought Mos Def came across looking paranoid and intellectually lazy, I think Hitchen&#8217;s comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}