{"id":64627,"date":"2017-09-26T05:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64627"},"modified":"2017-09-25T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T02:55:47","slug":"disagreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64627","title":{"rendered":"Disagreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being able to disagree is a dying art &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/24\/opinion\/dying-art-of-disagreement.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;referer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com\">and a vital one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To say the words, \u201cI agree\u201d \u2014 whether it\u2019s agreeing to join an organization, or submit to a political authority, or subscribe to a religious faith \u2014 may be the basis of every community. But to say, I disagree; I refuse; you\u2019re wrong; etiam si omnes \u2014 ego non \u2014 these are the words that define our individuality, give us our freedom, enjoin our tolerance, enlarge our perspectives, seize our attention, energize our progress, make our democracies real, and give hope and courage to oppressed people everywhere. G<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Diagreeing civilly and productively is what makes representative government possible. \u00a0We&#8217;re losing that ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being able to disagree is a dying art &#8211; and a vital one: To say the words, \u201cI agree\u201d \u2014 whether it\u2019s agreeing to join an organization, or submit to a political authority, or subscribe to a religious faith \u2014 may be the basis of every community. But to say, I disagree; I refuse; you\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64627","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=64627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64628,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64627\/revisions\/64628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}