{"id":986,"date":"2005-03-24T15:04:02","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2005\/03\/24\/986\/"},"modified":"2005-03-24T15:04:02","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T20:04:02","slug":"986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/986\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.<br \/>\n&#8211; George Orwell<\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p>They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality,<br \/>\nbecause they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of<br \/>\nthem, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice<br \/>\nwhat was happening.<br \/>\n&#8211; George Orwell<\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p>Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and<br \/>\nmurder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure<br \/>\nwind.<br \/>\n&#8211; George Orwell<\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p>The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by<br \/>\nhis own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing<br \/>\nabout them.<br \/>\n&#8211; George Orwell<\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/orwell\/1984\/\" target=\"_new\">Read George Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;1984&#8221; online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. &#8211; George Orwell = They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested [&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-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}