{"id":27524,"date":"2012-04-23T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T00:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/the-deification-of-material-well-being.html"},"modified":"2012-04-23T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T00:48:47","slug":"the-deification-of-material-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/the-deification-of-material-well-being.html","title":{"rendered":"The Deification of Material Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Teddy Roosevelt could have feet of clay at times, there&#39;s a <i>lot<\/i> he wrote that&#39;s eminently quotable and worthy of attention, a century later.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115082227631393857859'>T.R. Almanac<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; T.R. speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, titled &quot;Citizenship in a Republic&quot; (aka &quot;Man in the Arena&quot;), 23 April 1910<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-7TXf04qMjVg\/T5XuxtRwVNI\/AAAAAAAABPI\/DYqAzii2VL4\/invalides.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-7TXf04qMjVg\/T5XuxtRwVNI\/AAAAAAAABPI\/DYqAzii2VL4\/invalides.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Teddy Roosevelt could have feet of clay at times, there&#39;s a lot he wrote that&#39;s eminently quotable and worthy of attention, a century later. #ddtb Reshared post from +T.R. Almanac &quot;It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/the-deification-of-material-well-being.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Deification of Material Well-Being&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25276,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/teddy-and-the-grand-canyon.html","url_meta":{"origin":27524,"position":0},"title":"Teddy and the Grand Canyon","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jan-12 7:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bully for him! #ddtbReshared post from +T.R. 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