{"id":32685,"date":"2021-04-17T20:33:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T01:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32685"},"modified":"2021-04-17T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T01:33:56","slug":"quote-of-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/17\/quote-of-the-day-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George F. Will, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/patriotism-is-a-contested-concept-but-it-shouldnt-fade-to-something-only-dimly-remembered\/2021\/04\/14\/5a16dee4-9d32-11eb-9d05-ae06f4529ece_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who believe that the nation\u2019s real founding was the arrival of slaves in 1619, that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery, that the nation remains saturated with \u201csystemic racism,\u201d that the economic system has always been fundamentally exploitive, that the social order is rotten with injustice and that even the nation\u2019s most revered historical figures are unworthy of respect \u2014 those who think like this can be credited with moral earnestness, but not with patriotism: They cannot love what they will not praise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t often like George Will, even when I agree with him, but I think this is a paragraph worthy of meditation, extraction of questions with regard to one&#8217;s own beliefs &#8211; especially for the <em>woke<\/em> &#8211; and derivation of answers to those questions that are more than &#8220;But, but, but!&#8221; and bulgy eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George F. Will, WaPo: Those who believe that the nation\u2019s real founding was the arrival of slaves in 1619, that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery, that the nation remains saturated with \u201csystemic racism,\u201d that the economic system has always been fundamentally exploitive, that the social order is \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/17\/quote-of-the-day-18\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-32685","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\/32685","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=32685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32686,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685\/revisions\/32686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}