{"id":914,"date":"2008-09-19T23:06:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T04:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=914"},"modified":"2018-11-12T02:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:16:14","slug":"quoth-lincoln-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/quoth-lincoln-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoth Lincoln, et al&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/honest_abe.jpg\" alt=\"honest_abe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Universal truths about war\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u2014 Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPut up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2014 The Bible, Matthew 26:52<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: &#8220;Mother, what was war?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u2014 Eve Merriam<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCan anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u2014 Blaise Pascal<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u2014 Jeannette Rankin<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThose who prefer victory to peace will have neither.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u2014 Anonymous<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal truths about war\u2026 \u201cThere is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.\u201d \u2014 Abraham Lincoln \u201cPut up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.\u201d \u2014 The Bible, Matthew 26:52 \u201cI dream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16768,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/16768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}