{"id":29905,"date":"2016-06-15T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29905"},"modified":"2019-10-02T18:45:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T22:45:13","slug":"qotd-american-secular-puritanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/qotd-american-secular-puritanism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: American secular puritanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth &#8230; it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>H.L. Mencken, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=tn9HAAAAYAAJ&#038;q=%22If+there+is+one+mental+vice+indeed+which+sets+off+the+American+people+from+all+other+folks+who+walk+the+earth%22+%22it+is+that+of%22+%22that+every+human+act+must+be+either+right+or+wrong+and+that+ninety-nine+percent+of+them+are+wrong%22&#038;pg=RA1-PA87#v=onepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The American: His New Puritanism&#8221;, <em>The Smart Set<\/em><\/a>, 1914-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth &#8230; it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong. H.L. Mencken, &#8220;The American: His New Puritanism&#8221;, The Smart Set, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[57,53,41,13],"tags":[591,1310],"class_list":["post-29905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-hlmencken","tag-puritanism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Ml","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51483,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905\/revisions\/51483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}