{"id":5773,"date":"2010-03-21T18:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2010-03-21T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:50:06","slug":"liberal-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5773","title":{"rendered":"Liberal II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Awakening Moon<\/p>\n<p>A writing day.\u00a0 I put in several hours in a row on Liberal II:\u00a0 The Present.\u00a0 I was going to include the future, but in the end it took all I had to finish with the present.\u00a0 The story, the present, is a difficult one to tell to liberal audiences like Groveland UU because the reality is that liberalism is victorious.\u00a0 We live in a modern world that has liberal ideas as commonplace beliefs:\u00a0 individual liberty, equality, the rule of law, government by the people, an openness to change, a market economy.\u00a0 When I finish editing Liberal II, I&#8217;ll post it, but the hard to convey message is that more folks are not Unitarian because the worldview we embrace is widely shared.\u00a0 Strange, huh?<\/p>\n<p>I also worked a bit on Latin.\u00a0 During this time Kate got outside and pruned the fruit trees in our young orchard.\u00a0 She&#8217;s in charge of pruning and assembling woodenware, so I went out later in the day and complimented her on her work.\u00a0 She did Latin in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I love these kind of days where a focused task gets completed.<\/p>\n<p>After I finish the first draft of Liberal II, I also took on trying to get my networked computer in the study to share a printer with the other computers, like a nice computer should.\u00a0 It took a while, but I got them all clicking together. Felt like a victory to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Awakening Moon A writing day.\u00a0 I put in several hours in a row on Liberal II:\u00a0 The Present.\u00a0 I was going to include the future, but in the end it took all I had to finish with the present.\u00a0 The story, the present, is a difficult one to tell to liberal audiences like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberal II<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1450,14,87],"tags":[111,2282],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-on-religion","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-garden","tag-kate","tag-liberal-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5776,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/5776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}