{"id":1858,"date":"2022-09-24T04:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/the-progressive\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:44:41","slug":"the-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/the-progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Progressive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A &#39;progressive&#39; is one who has made no progress in understanding the world. If he had, he would understand that his proposed changes are not improvements.&#0160; This assumes, charitably, that he understands the difference between &#39;change&#39; and &#39;improvement.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#39;progressive&#39; is one who has made no progress in understanding the world. If he had, he would understand that his proposed changes are not improvements.&#0160; This assumes, charitably, that he understands the difference between &#39;change&#39; and &#39;improvement.&#39;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,163,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-polemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","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=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}