{"id":9078,"date":"2013-01-09T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/09\/extremists\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:00:02","slug":"extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/09\/extremists\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"

And then there are the conservatives (liberals) for whom a refusal to demonize liberals (conservatives) makes you one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is the first stanza of "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939):<\/span><\/p>\n

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre<\/span>
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<\/span>
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/span>
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<\/span>
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<\/span>
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/span>
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst<\/span>
    Are full of passionate intensity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And then there are the conservatives (liberals) for whom a refusal to demonize liberals (conservatives) makes you one. Here is the first stanza of "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939):     Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;    Mere anarchy is … Continue reading “Extremists”<\/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":[69,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078","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=9078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}