{"id":1168,"date":"2021-03-07T23:09:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2021-03-07T23:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:09:42","slug":"the-way-politics-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/the-way-politics-flourish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way Politics Flourish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intillectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that &#8216;my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.&#8221; -Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This explains a lot about American politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intillectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that &#8216;my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.&#8221; -Isaac Asimov This explains&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/the-way-politics-flourish\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[95,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}