{"id":3135,"date":"2017-05-03T11:25:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2017-05-03T11:25:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:25:51","slug":"beware-of-allies-who-are-fanatics-thugs-and-rascals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2017\/05\/03\/beware-of-allies-who-are-fanatics-thugs-and-rascals\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of allies who are fanatics, thugs and rascals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One can be a partisan of the left or right and still adhere to this proverb. Do not be deluded by fanatics, thugs, and rascals just because they claim to be your ally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that\u2019s very good and there\u2019s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it\u2019s wonderful, it\u2019s great luck, and let him thank God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what\u2019s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoe<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ver says he\u2019s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>\u2014 An old Jew of Galicia (Quoted by Czelaw Milosz)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can be a partisan of the left or right and still adhere to this proverb. Do not be deluded by fanatics, thugs, and rascals just because they claim to be your ally. &#8220;When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that\u2019s very good and there\u2019s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}