{"id":2174,"date":"2005-05-11T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2005-05-11T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T13:00:12","slug":"g-k-chesterton-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/g-k-chesterton-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"G.K. Chesterton Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/authors\/g\/gilbert_k_chesterton.html\">quotes from G.K. Chesterton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>> * All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.<\/p>\n<p>> * Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.<\/p>\n<p>> * I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.<\/p>\n<p>> * If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.<\/p>\n<p>> * Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>> * Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.<\/p>\n<p>> * The simplification of anything is always sensational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing quotes from G.K. Chesterton: > * All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. > * Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/g-k-chesterton-quotes\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[319],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-chesterton-simplification-sensational"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-z4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}