{"id":11212,"date":"2009-06-03T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2009-06-03T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T19:06:17","slug":"jon-soltz-not-above-altering-a-103-year-old-quote-to-make-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11212","title":{"rendered":"Jon Soltz: Not above altering a 103 year old quote to make a point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2840\">Soltz:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The old saying from Santayana is &#8220;Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.&#8221;  We can&#8217;t learn from recent history unless we know everything about the recent history of torture.  That&#8217;s why we need to investigate the whole truth about torture, now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reason in Common Sense, George Santayana, Page 284:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. <strong>Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aw shit, I&#8217;m guessing you didn&#8217;t like that stuff repudiating change, did you LT?<\/p>\n<p>I believe it was Oscar Wilde who once said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I seen a peanut stand, And heard a rubber band.  I&#8217;ve seen a needle that winked its eye.  But I been done seen about everything when I see a motor pool LT screw up quotes from 1903 just because he couldn&#8217;t master the ancient skill of googling it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soltz: The old saying from Santayana is &#8220;Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to &hellip; <a title=\"Jon Soltz: Not above altering a 103 year old quote to make a point\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11212\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jon Soltz: Not above altering a 103 year old quote to make a point<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}