{"id":152389,"date":"2022-12-08T10:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=152389"},"modified":"2022-12-08T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:52:49","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-william-c-durant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=152389","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from William C. Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.&#8221; ~ William C. Durant December 8, 1861 \u2013 March 18, 1947<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.&#8221; ~ William C. Durant December 8, 1861 \u2013 March 18, 1947<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.&#8221; ~ William C. Durant December 8, 1861 \u2013 March 18, 1947<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family is the nucleus of civilization.&#8221; ~ William C. Durant December 8, 1861 \u2013 March 18, 1947<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It may be true that you can&#8217;t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.&#8221; ~ William C. Durant December 8, 1861 \u2013 March 18, 1947<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.&#8221; ~ William C. Durant December 8, 1861 \u2013 March 18, 1947<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_C._Durant\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/220px-WilliamCDurant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-152390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/220px-WilliamCDurant.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/220px-WilliamCDurant-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.&#8221; ~ William C. Durant December 8, 1861 \u2013 March 18, 1947 &#8220;Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.&#8221; ~ William C. Durant December 8, 1861 \u2013 March 18, 1947 &#8220;To speak ill of others is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152390,"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-152389","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\/12\/220px-WilliamCDurant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152389","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=152389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152391,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152389\/revisions\/152391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}