{"id":1113,"date":"2008-11-19T22:12:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2008-11-19T22:12:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:12:03","slug":"an-old-connection-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"An Old Connection Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Daschle is back in the news today. Oddly enough Mr Daschle&#8217;s name is linked in my noggin with a quote probably bugged me as the most wrong thing I&#8217;ve every heard a politician utter. There was some scandal he was defending another Democratic from and he said something like,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What X did was unethical and immoral, but it was not illegal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This to me seems to get it exactly backwards and should not be used to defend <em>anyone&#8217;s<\/em> actions. Your actions should be moral and ethical &#8230; and its always a good thing if they are <em>also<\/em> legal. But if the two are at odds, i.e., the ethical\/moral and the legal are not the same, we should always choose the ethical and let the cards fall where they may regarding the legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Daschle is back in the news today. Oddly enough Mr Daschle&#8217;s name is linked in my noggin with a quote probably bugged me as the most wrong thing I&#8217;ve every heard a politician utter. There was some scandal he was defending another Democratic from and he said something like, What X did was unethical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,18,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-morality","category-government","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}