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Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
\nThe eternal years of God are hers;
\nBut Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
\nAnd dies among his worshippers.<\/em>
\n&nbsp&nbsp — William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), “The Battle-Field,” l. 33-36 (1837)<\/p>\n

Pretty to think so. Though I’m enough of a student of history (and observer of the present political race) to have my doubts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. &nbsp&nbsp — William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7195,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/11\/equal_time_5.html","url_meta":{"origin":5893,"position":0},"title":"Equal time?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 11-Oct-04 11:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Smear\" rhetoric aside (not having seen the show, I've no way to judge it, nor do I trust the predictable reaction from the Kerry campaign team), it certainly feels like...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2004"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2004","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2004"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6853,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/20\/wdw_day_7_thurs.html","url_meta":{"origin":5893,"position":1},"title":"WDW – Day 7 – Thursday, 16 Dec 04","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Dec-04 12:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We reeeeeally didn't want to go to the Princess Breakfast at 8:40a on Thursday morning. 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