{"id":6990,"date":"2023-01-10T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2023-01-10T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:52:18","slug":"a-perverse-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6990","title":{"rendered":"A Perverse Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the ante-bellum era, the Spirit of\u00a0 Toleration could not prevail.\u00a0 Its grip could not encompass all the people; there were enough to resist and overcome the evil which had extended its reach to many states.\u00a0 We are not so blessed with the zeal either to separate from an evil or to defeat it.\u00a0 Toleration and peace is the law of the day.\u00a0 But it is not a <em>good way<\/em>: peace through toleration of evil!\u00a0\u00a0 Better a war for justice than a wallowing in <em>perverted <\/em>peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.m. on 3 Jan., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ante-bellum era, the Spirit of\u00a0 Toleration could not prevail.\u00a0 Its grip could not encompass all the people; there were enough to resist and overcome the evil which had extended its reach to many states.\u00a0 We are not so blessed with the zeal either to separate from an evil or to defeat it.\u00a0 Toleration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,45,48,9,57,21,31,28,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6994,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions\/6994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}