{"id":4485,"date":"2012-01-21T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T10:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T10:11:36","slug":"out-of-the-mouths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2012\/01\/21\/out-of-the-mouths\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the mouths&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333399;\"><strong>A tapestry of opinion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about cruising through the news online, and especially via the medium of Twitter, is that it throws up altogether unexpected juxtapositions. Today I encountered the touching wisdom of a 12-year old, and the bizarre &#8216;learning&#8217; of an academic side by side.<\/p>\n<p>In Today&#8217;s\u00a0Telegraph, 12-year old Charlie Williams reflects on his experience of living through cancer and concludes that &#8216;<em>Cancer has made me take a step back and look through the window of life at what is ahead of me&#8217; .<\/em> Spare a few minutes and read the full article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/9029041\/Letter-by-Charlie-Williams-12-about-his-battle-with-cancer.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate development, evangelical &#8216;scientists&#8217; in Kansas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/evangelical-scientists-refute-gravity-with-new-int,1778\/\">announce<\/a> that gravity is not a force, but an &#8216;intelligent falling&#8217; caused by God pushing things down!<\/p>\n<p>You choose where the wisdom is to be found&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4486\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardlittledale.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/wisdom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4486\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4486\" title=\"wisdom\" src=\"http:\/\/richardlittledale.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/wisdom.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images: telegraph.co.uk and theonion.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[NB: The Onion is in fact a spoof news site &#8211; all too easy to be taken in! Decided to leave the post up though&#8230;since it directs you to Charlie Willams&#8217; remarkable (and genuine) words.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tapestry of opinion One of the great things about cruising through the news online, and especially via the medium of Twitter, is that it throws up altogether unexpected juxtapositions. Today I encountered the touching wisdom of a 12-year old, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2012\/01\/21\/out-of-the-mouths\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}