{"id":2160,"date":"2010-10-12T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2010-10-22T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T00:26:43","slug":"utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(1516) Thomas More<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #ff3300; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/erudition\/More_Utopia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2001 alignnone\" title=\"Goethe_Faust\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/erudition\/More_Utopia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;And I&#8217;ve no doubt that either self-interest, or the authority of our Saviour Christ &#8211; Who was far too kind to recommend anything else &#8211; would have led the whole world to adopt the Utopian system long ago, if it weren&#8217;t for that beastly root of all evils, pride.\u00c2\u00a0 For pride&#8217;s criterion of prosperity\u00c2\u00a0 is not what you&#8217;ve got yourself, but what other people haven&#8217;t got.\u00c2\u00a0 Pride would refuse to set foot in paradise, if she thought there&#8217;d be no under-privileged classes there to gloat over and order about &#8211; nobody whose misery could serve as a foil to her own happiness, or whose poverty she could make harder to bear, by flaunting her own riches.\u00c2\u00a0 Pride, like a hellish serpent gliding through human hearts &#8211; or shall we say, like a sucking-fish that clings to the ship of state? &#8211; is always dragging us back, and obstructing our progress towards a better way of life.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #ff3300; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More&#8217;s the man.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1516) Thomas More &#8220;And I&#8217;ve no doubt that either self-interest, or the authority of our Saviour Christ &#8211; Who was far too kind to recommend anything else &#8211; would have led the whole world to adopt the Utopian system long ago, if it weren&#8217;t for that beastly root of all evils, pride.\u00c2\u00a0 For pride&#8217;s criterion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/utopia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Utopia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}