{"id":7392,"date":"2015-02-06T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/the-west-is-the-best-2\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:47:14","slug":"the-west-is-the-best-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/the-west-is-the-best-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The West <i>Is<\/i> the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> But the West is in grave danger.&#0160; Attacked from without, she is also collapsing from within under the weight of her own decadence.&#0160; Can we and it survive?&#0160; The short answer is that, while we are running on fumes, they are rich and voluminous and long-lasting.&#0160; It will take some time before they and we peter out.&#0160; So there is still time to take action.&#0160; Decline is not inevitable.&#0160; But do we have the will?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d0d16c74970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"West the Best\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d0d16c74970c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d0d16c74970c-800wi\" title=\"West the Best\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the West is in grave danger.&#0160; Attacked from without, she is also collapsing from within under the weight of her own decadence.&#0160; Can we and it survive?&#0160; The short answer is that, while we are running on fumes, they are rich and voluminous and long-lasting.&#0160; It will take some time before they and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/the-west-is-the-best-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The West <i>Is<\/i> the Best&#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":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","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=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}