{"id":13980,"date":"2018-01-26T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13980"},"modified":"2018-01-26T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:57:37","slug":"the-deceit-of-language-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/26\/the-deceit-of-language-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deceit Of Language, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader remarks on Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/25\/the-deceit-of-language\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use of language<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"> <span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">It may be part of his appeal, but he&#8217;s an idiot. My son had a larger vocabulary at age 8 &#8212; no exaggeration.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"> <span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">Or in other words: if you as a citizen are equally limited in your vocabulary and thinking by choice, I don&#8217;t think you should have the right to vote.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I fear that down that street lies riot and ruin.<\/p>\n<p>An allied approach &#8211; <em>you must first prove you can put the good of the group ahead of your own profit before you can participate in the democracy<\/em> &#8211; is the underlying philosophy of Heinlein&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starship_Troopers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Starship Troopers<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. (Not the movie!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader remarks on Trump&#8217;s use of language: It may be part of his appeal, but he&#8217;s an idiot. My son had a larger vocabulary at age 8 &#8212; no exaggeration. Or in other words: if you as a citizen are equally limited in your vocabulary and thinking by choice, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/26\/the-deceit-of-language-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13981,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions\/13981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}