{"id":6175,"date":"2021-02-23T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2023-06-15T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:24:25","slug":"the-score-at-the-beginning-of-the-ninth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-score-at-the-beginning-of-the-ninth\/","title":{"rendered":"The score at the beginning of the ninth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/double-take\/e-b-white-on-the-meaning-of-democracy\">this definition of democracy by E.B. White<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  [Democracy] is the line that forms on the right. It is the don\u2019t in don\u2019t shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn\u2019t been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It\u2019s the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love this definition of democracy by E.B. White: [Democracy] is the line that forms on the right. It is the don\u2019t in don\u2019t shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-score-at-the-beginning-of-the-ninth\/\">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":[6,377,391],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics-2","category-sociology","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1BB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","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=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}