{"id":5160126,"date":"2006-08-11T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2006\/08\/11\/The-loud-little-handful\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:36:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T03:36:38","slug":"The-loud-little-handful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=5160126","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The loud little handful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/bunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/5160126\/'>Review<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><font style=\"display : block; font : 1.5em garamond, serif; width : 500px; margin : 20px auto; text-align : justify; color : #666;\"><br \/>\n&#8220;The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first&#8230;The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: &#8220;It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.&#8221; Then the few will shout even louder&#8230;Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it &#8230; Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i style=\"display : block; text-align : right;\">&#8212; Mark Twain<\/i><br \/>\n<\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review &#8220;The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first&#8230;The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=5160126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[10991],"tags":[400569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5160126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5160126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5160126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5160126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}