{"id":6692,"date":"2016-12-18T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2016-12-18T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:40:44","slug":"liberal-and-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6692","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;LIBERAL&#8221; AND &#8220;CONSERVATIVE&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In my own interactions I&#8217;ve found the hardened categories of liberal and conservative, or left and right, to be confusing and not helpful. Too many claim these labels without knowing what they mean.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve never had difficulties interacting, even debating, with liberals in the best sense of that word, or conservatives in the best sense of that word.\u00a0 I have had much difficulty with illiberals who think they are liberals, and conspiratorial folks who claim conservatism. \u00a0 Neither are very knowledgeable of political philosophy or history.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my own interactions I&#8217;ve found the hardened categories of liberal and conservative, or left and right, to be confusing and not helpful. Too many claim these labels without knowing what they mean. I&#8217;ve never had difficulties interacting, even debating, with liberals in the best sense of that word, or conservatives in the best sense [&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":[122,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controversy","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","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=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}