{"id":5677,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/virtue-and-the-free-society\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","slug":"virtue-and-the-free-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/virtue-and-the-free-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtue and the Free Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Character and virtue are necessary for society to remain free.  Virtue can be taught in schools (&#8220;values clarification&#8221; isn&#8217;t adequate).  One of the reason schools are in decline is because virtue is being given short shrift.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the 20th century, playwright and social critic George Bernard Shaw wrote, &#8220;Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character and virtue are necessary for society to remain free. Virtue can be taught in schools (&#8220;values clarification&#8221; isn&#8217;t adequate). One of the reason schools are in decline is because virtue is being given short shrift. Early in the 20th century, playwright and social critic George Bernard Shaw wrote, &#8220;Liberty means responsibility. That is why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[370,1861,515,1916,3113,1917,1405,3112,1159,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}