{"id":134666,"date":"2022-01-13T17:13:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=134666"},"modified":"2022-01-13T17:13:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:13:51","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-edmund-burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=134666","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Edmund Burke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.&#8221; ~ Edmund Burke, 12 January 1729 \u2013 9 July 1797<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.&#8221; ~ Edmund Burke, 12 January 1729 \u2013 9 July 1797<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.&#8221; ~ Edmund Burke, 12 January 1729 \u2013 9 July 1797<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.&#8221; ~ Edmund Burke, 12 January 1729 \u2013 9 July 1797<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.&#8221; ~ Edmund Burke, 12 January 1729 \u2013 9 July 1797<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmund_Burke\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EdmundBurke1771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12099\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.&#8221; ~ Edmund Burke, 12 January 1729 \u2013 9 July 1797 &#8220;Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.&#8221; ~ Edmund Burke, 12 January 1729 \u2013 9 July 1797 &#8220;No passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EdmundBurke1771.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134668,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134666\/revisions\/134668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}