{"id":705,"date":"2020-01-26T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=705"},"modified":"2020-01-16T22:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:07:43","slug":"will-rogers-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Will Rogers on politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bg273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bg273.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bg273-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liberty don&#8217;t work near as good in practice as it does in speeches.<\/li>\n<li>Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.<\/li>\n<li>Common sense is not an issue in politics; it&#8217;s an affliction.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it&#8217;s still there.<\/li>\n<li>If you get to thinking you&#8217;re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else&#8217;s dog around.<\/li>\n<li>Last year we said. &#8220;Things can&#8217;t go on like this,&#8221; and they didn&#8217;t, they got worse.<\/li>\n<li>People&#8217;s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.<\/li>\n<li>The business of government is to keep the government out of business &#8211; that is, unless business needs government aid.<\/li>\n<li>The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no trick to being a humourist when you have the whole government working for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Liberty don&#8217;t work near as good in practice as it does in speeches. Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause. Common sense is not an issue in politics; it&#8217;s an affliction. If you&#8217;re riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10960,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/10960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}