{"id":14754,"date":"2020-07-04T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=14754"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:48:37","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=14754","title":{"rendered":"Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Missing Baseball 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThough people cannot be equal,<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

their access to education and opportunity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

can be made more nearly equal.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From The Lessons of History<\/strong><\/em> by Will and Ariel Durant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1968, Simon & Schuster) page 79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 4 it is a good idea to reflect on how far we have come as a country toward the ideals set in our founding documents. There is still far to go but progress has been made and hope for the future should triumph over anger about the failures of the past. Do you need some evidence that this is true? There are millions of people waiting in line to try to become Americans. Is that true anywhere else? We are not perfect but we are the best available choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Disclosure: This is a reprint of a post from June 2014 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThough people cannot be equal, their access to education and opportunity can be made more nearly equal.\u201d From The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant (1968, Simon & Schuster) page 79 On July 4 it is a good idea to reflect on how far we have come as a country toward the ideals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,11,5],"tags":[313,264,464],"class_list":["post-14754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","category-politics","category-simon-says","tag-baseball","tag-equality","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/B7938FC8-65A8-44A3-8F62-4D48831A33A8_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s99jGb-equality","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14756,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions\/14756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}