{"id":7623,"date":"2006-06-07T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2006-06-07T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T18:47:17","slug":"sam-brownbacks-unique-way-of-showing-respect-and-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sam-brownbacks-unique-way-of-showing-respect-and-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Brownback&#8217;s unique way of showing respect and humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WaPo had an interesting item on Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) today, talking about the senator&#8217;s faith and conversion to Catholicism. There was one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/06\/AR2006060601616_pf.html\">anecdote<\/a>, however, that caught my eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This notion of falling short is a big part of Brownback&#8217;s identity. He&#8217;s even humble about his own humility, saying there are others who surpass him in this virtue. Once, years ago, he washed the feet of a staffer at a farewell party to demonstrate respect and humility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s often hard to say how the public at large might respond to something like this, but does this strike anyone else as a little odd? This is not to disparage his personal beliefs or religious practices, only to note that it strikes me as unusual for someone to wash their employees&#8217; feet at a farewell party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WaPo had an interesting item on Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) today, talking about the senator&#8217;s faith and conversion to Catholicism. There was one anecdote, however, that caught my eye. This notion of falling short is a big part of Brownback&#8217;s identity. He&#8217;s even humble about his own humility, saying there are others who surpass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}