{"id":19832,"date":"2020-07-09T22:10:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19832"},"modified":"2020-07-09T22:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:11:25","slug":"if-you-are-not-prepared-to-use-force-to-defend-civilization-then-be-prepared-to-accept-barbarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19832","title":{"rendered":"<b><i>&#8220;If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.&#8221;<\/i><\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>then be prepared to accept barbarism.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212; Thomas Sowell<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19833\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DjMPYliU8AA3pOC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DjMPYliU8AA3pOC.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DjMPYliU8AA3pOC-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DjMPYliU8AA3pOC-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}