{"id":462,"date":"2007-07-06T05:13:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/sinclair-lewis\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T05:13:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T12:13:49","slug":"sinclair-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/sinclair-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinclair Lewis had it right in 1935:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our trip to Ohio reminds me that there are many people who will embrace things solely because of religious and\/or patriotic duties. It reminds me that critical thought is not encouraged, obey. But what happens when the authority figures are not worthy of trust? We&#8217;re living through that situation now. When these good people wake up and realize that they&#8217;ve been had, the Republican party will not recover (since they&#8217;ve wrapped themselves in the flag and are carrying the cross.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI just hope it&#8217;s not too late when the heartland wakes up. Actions speak louder than words and the actions of our political leadership do not match the patriotic and religious words they utter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinclair Lewis had it right in 1935: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Our trip to Ohio reminds me that there are many people who will embrace things solely because of religious and\/or patriotic duties. It reminds me that critical thought is not encouraged, obey. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}