{"id":6805,"date":"2017-02-27T00:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6805"},"modified":"2017-02-24T22:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:15:56","slug":"ponder-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6805","title":{"rendered":"PONDER THIS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The eminent Catholic scholar, Michael Novak, has died.\u00a0 His quiet genius influenced many of the more popular names you may know.\u00a0 In any case, there is a nice tribute to him below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the best quotes from him on the possibility of humans creating some utopia: \u201cTo know oneself is to disbelieve in utopia. To seek realism is to learn mercy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wnysxqBJ0k\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.acton.org\/archives\/92074-6-quotes-michael-novak-on-freedom-and-institutions.html\">6 Quotes: Michael Novak on Freedom and Institutions<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;6 Quotes: Michael Novak on Freedom and Institutions&#8221; &#8212; Religion &amp; Liberty Online\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.acton.org\/archives\/92074-6-quotes-michael-novak-on-freedom-and-institutions.html\/embed#?secret=PJjVQSSS4J#?secret=wnysxqBJ0k\" data-secret=\"wnysxqBJ0k\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eminent Catholic scholar, Michael Novak, has died.\u00a0 His quiet genius influenced many of the more popular names you may know.\u00a0 In any case, there is a nice tribute to him below. One of the best quotes from him on the possibility of humans creating some utopia: \u201cTo know oneself is to disbelieve in utopia. [&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":[43,53,33,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-politics","category-quotable","category-sin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805","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=6805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}