{"id":447,"date":"2007-08-08T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2007-08-08T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T12:57:07","slug":"since-the-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Since the dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t make any sense of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/07\/AR2007080701290.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>In a time deluged by ideology &#8212; <strong>when everyone is urged to take a side and join the political battle<\/strong> &#8212; Shakespeare offers a different message: that the most important and dramatic choices are made in the human soul. Some steps, once taken, cannot be retraced. Some appetites, once freed, become a prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Choices made in the human soul&#8221; may involve taking sides in a political battle&#8211;and they may not be retraced: you can&#8217;t unkill all those people.  After all.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t make any sense of this: >In a time deluged by ideology &#8212; when everyone is urged to take a side and join the political battle &#8212; Shakespeare offers a different message: that the most important and dramatic choices are made in the human soul. Some steps, once taken, cannot be retraced. Some appetites, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Since the dawn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-gerson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}