{"id":237,"date":"2004-10-07T01:40:49","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T08:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=237"},"modified":"2004-10-07T01:40:49","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T08:40:49","slug":"equal-vs-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/10\/07\/equal-vs-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal vs. Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--109712776929771939--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m traveling and working in Nepal with Jonathan Schell&#8217;s <i>The Unconquerable World<\/i>. Early on he says, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What were the causes of this democratic revolution?  Almost anything you cared to mention, according to it&#8217;s most profound expositor, Tocqueville.  &#8220;The various occurrences of national existence have everywhere turned to the advantage of democracy,&#8221; he wrote; &#8220;all men have aided it by their exertions: those who have intentionally labored in its cause and those who have served it unwittingly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m traveling and working in Nepal with Jonathan Schell&#8217;s The Unconquerable World. Early on he says, What were the causes of this democratic revolution? Almost anything you cared to mention, according to it&#8217;s most profound expositor, Tocqueville. &#8220;The various occurrences of national existence have everywhere turned to the advantage of democracy,&#8221; he wrote; &#8220;all men &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/10\/07\/equal-vs-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Equal vs. Together&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}