{"id":3150,"date":"2025-11-11T00:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:56:57","slug":"a-belated-birthday-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"A Belated Birthday Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article on socialism in America when I saw a name I recognized, and I noticed that November 5th was the 170th birthday of Eugene V. Debbs. A perennial candidate for president on the American Socialist Party ticket back in the 1910&#8217;s and 1920&#8217;s. So who was he?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYour Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scary stuff that socialism. I learned about Debbs from Kurt Vonnegut. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene_V._Debs\">Eugene V. Debs at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/3810-Eugene_V_Debs\">Quotes from Debbs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article on socialism in America when I saw a name I recognized, and I noticed that November 5th was the 170th birthday of Eugene V. Debbs. A perennial candidate for president on the American Socialist Party &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-ethics-and-logic","category-politics-and-society"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}