{"id":285,"date":"2008-07-05T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T10:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2008-07-05T10:25:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T10:25:54","slug":"5th_of_july_reading_assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"5th of July Reading Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/independence-of-thought-day\/\">Independence of Thought Day,<\/a> Dennis Dale writing for <em>The American Conservative<\/em> magazine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTake-home nugget: &#8220;I prefer the nation that accepts the uncertainty of the question to that which preens as the answer. I prefer the bravery of the free to the arrogance of the powerful.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSee, this is why I&#8217;m not ready to renounce conservatism.  Just neo-Confederacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence of Thought Day, Dennis Dale writing for The American Conservative magazine. Take-home nugget: &#8220;I prefer the nation that accepts the uncertainty of the question to that which preens as the answer. I prefer the bravery of the free to the arrogance of the powerful.&#8221; See, this is why I&#8217;m not ready to renounce conservatism. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;5th of July Reading Assignment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}