{"id":1535,"date":"2023-04-01T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T10:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/civility-is-for-the-civil\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T10:06:20","slug":"civility-is-for-the-civil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/civility-is-for-the-civil\/","title":{"rendered":"Civility is for the Civil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A reader sent me a graphic to accompany one of my aphorisms:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Civility is no virtue if a cover for cowardice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The meme is crude, but I see little point these days in being polite to our enemies. As another of my aphorisms has it,&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Be kind, but be prepared to reply in kind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">But don&#39;t be misled by what I am about to post.&#0160; You must heed Glenn Beck&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CBr9hgxZiNg\">GRAVE WARNING<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02b751798124200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Civility Return\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02b751798124200b image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02b751798124200b-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Civility Return\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me a graphic to accompany one of my aphorisms: Civility is no virtue if a cover for cowardice. The meme is crude, but I see little point these days in being polite to our enemies. As another of my aphorisms has it,&#0160; Be kind, but be prepared to reply in kind. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/civility-is-for-the-civil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Civility is for the Civil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","category-civility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}