{"id":647,"date":"2017-03-20T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=647"},"modified":"2017-03-20T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:49:52","slug":"the-cave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/the-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve got to admit, some people still want their<\/p>\n<p>Pharaohs and why not, it is a tradition with thousands<\/p>\n<p>of years of heritage. Combine that\u00a0 with another power-<\/p>\n<p>ful force, tribalism, and you have a formidable opponent, if you choose to make them an 0pp0nent.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy, I shit you not, is\u00a0 a new notion historically.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Westerners looking\u00a0 Eastward realize that.<\/p>\n<p>Let us say you are walking along and you come upon a<\/p>\n<p>deep dark cave, at least that is the way it looks to you.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, there are people living in there.<\/p>\n<p>You, and I mean you, feel\u00a0 you must bring your light<\/p>\n<p>into their cave or bring them out to it. They, and I mean<\/p>\n<p>they, choose not to come out to your light or allow it to enter.<\/p>\n<p>Quite frankly the latter works for me.<\/p>\n<p>Islander.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve got to admit, some people still want their Pharaohs and why not, it is a tradition with thousands of years of heritage. Combine that\u00a0 with another power- ful force, tribalism, and you have a formidable opponent, if you choose to make them an 0pp0nent. Democracy, I shit you not, is\u00a0 a new notion historically. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/the-cave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-647","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}