{"id":7311,"date":"2015-03-11T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/11\/the-true-gentleman\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:03:53","slug":"the-true-gentleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/11\/the-true-gentleman\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Gentleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sae.net\/creed\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/03\/10\/no-a-public-university-may-not-expel-students-for-racist-speech\/\" target=\"_self\">Volokh<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>&#8211; John Walter Wayland<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, via Volokh: The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/11\/the-true-gentleman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The True Gentleman&#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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311","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=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}