{"id":658,"date":"2008-09-21T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-09-21T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T14:50:23","slug":"stubborn-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2008\/09\/stubborn-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Stubborn ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/news\/2008\/sep\/21\/stubborn-ignorance\/\">Washington Times &#8211; WILLIAMS: Stubborn ignorance <\/a><br \/>\nThe ending quote is fantastic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>English philosopher Herbert Spencer said, &#8220;The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Times &#8211; WILLIAMS: Stubborn ignorance The ending quote is fantastic: English philosopher Herbert Spencer said, &#8220;The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-aC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}