{"id":969,"date":"2010-01-18T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/the-descending-spiral-of-violence\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:53:21","slug":"the-descending-spiral-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/the-descending-spiral-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Descending Spiral of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mlk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"mlk\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mlk_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"mlk\" width=\"324\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,<br \/>\nbegetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.<br \/>\nInstead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.<br \/>\nThrough violence you may murder the liar,<br \/>\nbut you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.<br \/>\nThrough violence you may murder the hater,<br \/>\nbut you do not murder hate.<br \/>\nIn fact, violence merely increases hate.<br \/>\nSo it goes.<br \/>\nReturning violence for violence multiplies violence,<br \/>\nadding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.<br \/>\nDarkness cannot drive out darkness:<br \/>\nonly light can do that.<br \/>\nHate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.<\/p>\n<p>-MLK<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[116,115,165,292,345],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-hate","tag-love","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-non-violence","tag-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}