{"id":28509,"date":"2020-07-06T17:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28509"},"modified":"2020-07-06T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:42:25","slug":"robert-g-ingersoll-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28509","title":{"rendered":"Robert G. Ingersoll Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> I  have made up my mind to say my say. I shall do it kindly, distinctly;  but I am going to do it. I know there are thousands of men who  substantially agree with me, but who are not in a condition to express  their thoughts. They are poor; they are in business; and they know that  should they tell their honest thought, persons will refuse to patronize  them\u2014to trade with them; they wish to get bread for their little  children; they wish to take care of their wives; they wish to have homes  and the comforts of life. Every such person is a certificate of the  meanness of the community in which he resides. And yet I do not blame  these people for not expressing their thought. I say to them: &#8216;Keep your  ideas to yourselves; feed and clothe the ones you love; I will do your  talking for you. The church can not touch, can not crush, can not  starve, cannot stop or stay me; I will express your thoughts. \u2015 Robert G. Ingersoll <br><br> I do not know enough about Robert to know to which church he was referring but it applies equally today to the church of religious dogma that is big pHarma educated and funded medical pseudo science! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have made up my mind to say my say. I shall do it kindly, distinctly; but I am going to do it. I know there are thousands of men who substantially agree with me, but who are not in a condition to express their thoughts. They are poor; they are in business; and they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robert G. Ingersoll Quote&#8221;<\/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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28510,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509\/revisions\/28510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}