{"id":50675,"date":"2022-02-24T16:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50675"},"modified":"2022-02-24T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:34:52","slug":"words-of-wisdom-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50675","title":{"rendered":"Words of wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mark_Twain_by_AF_Bradley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50676\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mark_Twain_by_AF_Bradley-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mark_Twain_by_AF_Bradley-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mark_Twain_by_AF_Bradley-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mark_Twain_by_AF_Bradley.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a smart man, to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>The man aka Mark Twain once wrote this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out \u2026 and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. \u2026 And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for \u2018the universal brotherhood of man\u2019 \u2014 with his mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to share these words as the world recoils at the thought of war in Europe. The conflict is unfolding at this moment and I am left to wonder: What in the name of human decency can ever justify what is occurring?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a smart man, to be sure. The man aka Mark Twain once wrote this: \u201cMan is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Words of wisdom<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2918,4050,4998],"class_list":["post-50675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-mark-twain","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50677,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50675\/revisions\/50677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}