{"id":37359,"date":"2019-01-29T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37359"},"modified":"2019-01-01T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T16:41:40","slug":"qotd-fanaticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/29\/qotd-fanaticism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Fanaticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Esar&#8217;s Comic Dictionary<\/em> (1943) contains two definitions of the word &#8220;fanatic,&#8221; often wrongly attributed (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/391645\/twilight-froot-loops-kevin-d-williamson\" target=\"_blank\">by me, among others<\/a>) to Winston Churchill: First, &#8220;A person who redoubles his efforts after having forgotten his aims.&#8221; Second (my favorite), &#8220;One who can&#8217;t change his opinion and won&#8217;t change the subject.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin D. Williamson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/444832\/politics-new-york-times-classified-roommates-no-republicans-need-apply\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;No Republicans Need Apply&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02-12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esar&#8217;s Comic Dictionary (1943) contains two definitions of the word &#8220;fanatic,&#8221; often wrongly attributed (by me, among others) to Winston Churchill: First, &#8220;A person who redoubles his efforts after having forgotten his aims.&#8221; Second (my favorite), &#8220;One who can&#8217;t change his opinion and won&#8217;t change the subject.&#8221; Kevin D. Williamson, &#8220;No Republicans Need Apply&#8221;, National [&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":[57,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37359","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=37359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37361,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37359\/revisions\/37361"}],"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=37359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}