{"id":294,"date":"2007-01-03T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/03\/where-credit-is-due-2\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:53:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:53:45","slug":"where-credit-is-due-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Where Credit Is Due"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gotta hand it to Keith Ellison; although I think he’s well on his way to being a terrible <\/em>Congressional representative, this is a pretty smooth move<\/a>.\u00a0 For his controversial swearing-in on the Qu’ran tomorrow…:<\/p>\n

We’ve learned that the new congressman — in a savvy bit of political symbolism — will hold the personal copy [of the Qu’ran] once owned by Thomas Jefferson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“He wanted to use a Koran that was special,” said Mark Dimunation<\/strong>, chief of the rare book and special collections division at the Library of Congress, who was contacted by the Minnesota Dem early in December. Dimunation, who grew up in Ellison’s 5th District, was happy to help.<\/p>\n

Jefferson’s copy is an English translation by George Sale<\/strong> published in the 1750s; it survived the 1851 fire that destroyed most of Jefferson’s collection and has his customary initialing on the pages. This isn’t the first historic book used for swearing-in ceremonies — the Library has allowed VIPs to use rare Bibles for inaugurations and other special occasions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t personally care on which book, if any, a Congressman takes his\/her oath; using the book, if any, that is most meaningful to them makes perfect sense to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Because the part that counts starts later this week.\u00a0 And oy, what a mess that’s going to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I gotta hand it to Keith Ellison; although I think he’s well on his way to being a terrible Congressional representative, this is a pretty smooth move.\u00a0 For his controversial swearing-in on the Qu’ran tomorrow…: We’ve learned that the new congressman — in a savvy bit of political symbolism — will hold the personal copy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22422,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/22422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}