{"id":690,"date":"2008-08-13T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-08-13T22:15:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T03:15:43","slug":"quote-of-the-day-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one&#8217;s responsibility as a free man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From an essay &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=CFIYAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22To+give+up+the+task+of+reforming+society+is+to+give+up+one%27s+responsibility+as+a+free+man.%22&amp;dq=%22To+give+up+the+task+of+reforming+society+is+to+give+up+one%27s+responsibility+as+a+free+man.%22&amp;ei=DemiSOyyApekiwHBqJH7BA&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;pgis=1\">The Challenge of Fear<\/a>&#8221; published in 1967 by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Paton\">Alan Stewart Paton<\/a>, a white South African writer, liberal political activist, and author of Cry, The Beloved Country (which has been made into a movie twice &#8211; in 1951 and in 1995, and into a Broadway musical.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one&#8217;s responsibility as a free man. From an essay &#8220;The Challenge of Fear&#8221; published in 1967 by Alan Stewart Paton, a white South African writer, liberal political activist, and author of Cry, The Beloved Country (which has been made into a movie twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,50],"tags":[581,583,582],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-reflections","tag-alan-stewart-paton","tag-reform","tag-responsibility"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-b8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}