{"id":10147,"date":"2020-05-07T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2020-05-07T14:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:10:43","slug":"better-government-in-charity-than-indifference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/07\/better-government-in-charity-than-indifference\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Government in Charity than Indifference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fdr-1936-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fdr-1936-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fdr-1936-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fdr-1936-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fdr-1936-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (one of my personal heroes) in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/23-the-great-depression\/franklin-roosevelts-re-nomination-acceptance-speech-1936\/\">speech<\/a> accepting renomination for the presidency, June 27, 1936<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotables","tag-fdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}