{"id":667,"date":"2024-07-18T04:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/on-settling-political-and-marital\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T04:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:35:05","slug":"on-settling-political-and-marital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/on-settling-political-and-marital\/","title":{"rendered":"On Settling: Political and Marital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In politics, as in marriage, at some point you have to settle on the <em>best available<\/em> candidate, not the best. Politics is about better and worse, not about perfect and imperfect. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Qui habet aures audiendi audiat.<\/em> &quot;He who has ears to hear, let him hear.&quot;&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In politics, as in marriage, at some point you have to settle on the best available candidate, not the best. Politics is about better and worse, not about perfect and imperfect. Qui habet aures audiendi audiat. &quot;He who has ears to hear, let him hear.&quot;&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,115,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-latin","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}