{"id":208,"date":"2007-03-17T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=208"},"modified":"2007-03-17T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T15:53:31","slug":"the_futility_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2007\/03\/the_futility_of\/","title":{"rendered":"The Futility of Sectarian Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sam Crane and a gift from Mencius. A bell that tolled more than 2200 years ago and only but a few care to read in our days. Man is the only animal that stumbles on the same rock more than once&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Useless Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/uselesstree.typepad.com\/useless_tree\/2007\/03\/mencius_on_sect.html\">The Useless Tree<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mencius said: &#8220;Only now have I realized the true gravity of killing a man&#8217;s family members. If you kill his father; he&#8217;ll kill your father. If you kill his brother, he&#8217;ll kill your brother. There&#8217;s precious little difference between that and killing your father or brother with your own hands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sam Crane and a gift from Mencius. A bell that tolled more than 2200 years ago and only but a few care to read in our days. Man is the only animal that stumbles on the same rock more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2007\/03\/the_futility_of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-mencius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}