{"id":1306,"date":"2007-08-31T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2007-08-31T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:40:32","slug":"on-a-friday-philosophy-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"On a Friday Philosophy Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &mdash; Edmund Burke<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a related subject, The Nation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20070910\/cole\">has an intriguing article comparing Bush&#8217;s invasion of Iraq to Napoleon&#8217;s invasion of Egypt<\/a>.  I&#8217;m reminded of, &#8220;Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.&#8221; :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing&#8221; &nbsp; &nbsp; &mdash; Edmund Burke On a related subject, The Nation has an intriguing article comparing Bush&#8217;s invasion of Iraq to Napoleon&#8217;s invasion of Egypt. I&#8217;m reminded of, &#8220;Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.&#8221; :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[4118],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-philosophy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}