{"id":5440,"date":"2012-11-07T06:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T11:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2012-11-08T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:25:37","slug":"well-the-republic-had-a-good-long-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5440","title":{"rendered":"Well, the Republic had a good long run."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To all of those &#8220;Principalled&#8221; voters who stood by their &#8220;Principals&#8221;, thanks. When I have to live like an animal, I&#8217;ll remember that you did what you thought was right. And all you who suffered under the evil delusion that &#8220;Voting is immoral&#8221;, have fun in hell. I only hope I get there first so I can make up your bed. You won&#8217;t like it. <\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t any fun to learn that the majority of your countrymen are abject morons. On the other hand, it will be easier not to feel much compassion for them when they&#8217;re starving to death because of their own stupid. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited to add: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord, if I will have friends, then let them be my friends.<br \/>\nlet them stand at my shoulder and enjoy my joy<br \/>\nLet them stand on my ramparts and mix their blood with mine.<\/p>\n<p>And if I will have enemies, let them be my enemies.<br \/>\nlet them hate me squarely and without reservation<br \/>\nI will see them on their ramparts and know precisely where they stand<\/p>\n<p>I will feel the teeth of my enemy in my flesh,<br \/>\nand I will feel the flesh of my enemy in my teeth<\/p>\n<p>I will hold the hand of my friend<br \/>\nand he will holld mine.<\/p>\n<p>Deliver me from the apathete.  Friend nor enemy to none,<br \/>\nthey weaken me and strengthen my enemies,<br \/>\nin the name of &#8220;Doing unto others&#8221; They are all that can truly defeat me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all of those &#8220;Principalled&#8221; voters who stood by their &#8220;Principals&#8221;, thanks. When I have to live like an animal, I&#8217;ll remember that you did what you thought was right. And all you who suffered under the evil delusion that &#8220;Voting is immoral&#8221;, have fun in hell. I only hope I get there first so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}