{"id":14855,"date":"2010-11-02T04:59:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14855"},"modified":"2010-10-31T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T17:24:39","slug":"thoughts-for-today-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14855","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts For Today: Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a half hour speech – but if you have time, give it a look.\u00a0 Though it’s 46 years old, much of it, if you leave out the references to long-gone politicians, the Cold War and Nikita Kruschev, and the spending figures which seem so ludicrously tiny today) is as dead-on today as it was the day it was broadcast.<\/p>\n

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“You and I have the courage to say to enemies there is a price we will not pay, and there is a point beyond which they must not advance…You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.\u00a0 We’ll preserve for our children for this, the last best home for mankind, or sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness…we’ll remember that we have the right to make our own decisions, and to determine our own<\/em> destiny”.<\/p>\n

And that point is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a half hour speech – but if you have time, give it a look.\u00a0 Though it’s 46 years old, much of it, if you leave out the references to long-gone politicians, the Cold War and Nikita Kruschev, and the spending figures which seem so ludicrously tiny today) is as dead-on today as it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14857,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions\/14857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}