{"id":8600,"date":"2011-10-02T09:28:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2017-11-12T02:38:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T21:38:49","slug":"speaking-of-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/speaking-of-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Gandhi&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8601\" title=\"Gandhi_Seven_Dangers_to_Human_Virtue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gandhi_Seven_Dangers_to_Human_Virtue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Porbandar, India<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is the birthday of the great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi\" target=\"_blank\">Mahatma Gandhi<\/a> (1869-1948), now celebrated around the world as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Day_of_Non-Violence\" target=\"_blank\">International Day of Non-Violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although I have not been able to find verification that the &#8220;Seven Dangers to Human Virtue&#8221; attributed to him were actually stated by him (this could, admittedly, be an Internet meme\u2014the airwaves are filled with chatter about him), from what I know of the man, they seem to fit with his character and worldview.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>The illustration is from a Russian postage stamp issued in 1969 in honour of Gandhi&#8217;s 100th birthday (illustrator unknown, copyright free through Wikimedia Commons). <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porbandar, India Today is the birthday of the great Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), now celebrated around the world as the International Day of Non-Violence. Although I have not been able to find verification that the &#8220;Seven Dangers to Human Virtue&#8221; attributed to him were actually stated by him (this could, admittedly, be an Internet meme\u2014the airwaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,9,12,13,14,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15483,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions\/15483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}