{"id":2033,"date":"2022-05-18T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/go-gray\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:15:29","slug":"go-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/go-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Gray!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The car of a neighbor sports a bumper sticker: &quot;I vote pro-gun!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I say <em>go gray<\/em>.&#0160; Never advertise your political views when you are out and about in public.&#0160; These are dangerous times as polarization peaks and comity collapses. You must of course speak out, stand up, and prepare.&#0160; I am not advocating timid withdrawal from the fray. But there are more and less prudent ways to proceed. Prudence, you will recall, is one of the cardinal virtues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I have more to say on this topic at <em>Substack<\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/are-you-a-gray-man?s=r\">Are You a Gray Man?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car of a neighbor sports a bumper sticker: &quot;I vote pro-gun!&quot; I say go gray.&#0160; Never advertise your political views when you are out and about in public.&#0160; These are dangerous times as polarization peaks and comity collapses. You must of course speak out, stand up, and prepare.&#0160; I am not advocating timid withdrawal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/go-gray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go Gray!&#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":[239,530,433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-prudence","category-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","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=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}