{"id":2069,"date":"2010-03-18T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2010-03-18T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:07:10","slug":"to-be-conservative-is-to-be-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/03\/18\/to-be-conservative-is-to-be-progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"To be conservative is to be progressive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT <a href=http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/17\/books\/17book.xml>paraphrasing<\/a> Tony Judt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oddly enough, Mr. Judt writes, the left and right have swapped political modes. The right has become radicalized, abandoning the &#8220;social moderation which served it so well from Disraeli to Heath, from Theodore Roosevelt to Nelson Rockefeller.&#8221; It&#8217;s the left that now has something to conserve, &#8220;the institutions, legislation, services and rights that we have inherited from the great age of 20th-century reform.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More Judt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/1751\">previously<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT paraphrasing Tony Judt: Oddly enough, Mr. Judt writes, the left and right have swapped political modes. The right has become radicalized, abandoning the &#8220;social moderation which served it so well from Disraeli to Heath, from Theodore Roosevelt to Nelson Rockefeller.&#8221; It&#8217;s the left that now has something to conserve, &#8220;the institutions, legislation, services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}