{"id":5008,"date":"2014-11-21T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2014-11-15T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T19:11:31","slug":"what-is-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5008","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS CONSERVATISM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Roger Scruton succinctly captures the point in his book,\u00a0<i>How To Be A Conservative<\/i>. &#8216;Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.&#8217; In the name of justice, we too often get knee-jerk progressivism that erodes and destroys some of the best gifts handed down to us for tackling injustice. &#8216;The work of destruction,&#8217; Scruton observes, &#8216;is quick, easy, and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious, and dull.&#8217; But such creative\u00a0<i>conserving<\/i>\u00a0work is germane to securing the goods necessary for the poor to prosper.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>As quoted in James K.A. Smith&#8217;s article:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardus.ca\/comment\/article\/4335\/redeeming-conservatism\/\">http:\/\/www.cardus.ca\/comment\/article\/4335\/redeeming-conservatism\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Roger Scruton succinctly captures the point in his book,\u00a0How To Be A Conservative. &#8216;Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.&#8217; In the name of justice, we too often get knee-jerk progressivism that erodes and destroys some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}