{"id":103,"date":"2006-04-07T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2010-11-10T08:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T13:00:59","slug":"mark-twain-on-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain on doing right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Always do right. This will gratify most people and astonish the rest.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry to say that I had misremembered the above quote. I thought it began: &#8220;Always tell the truth.&#8221; Even so, I&#8217;d like to think that the &#8220;truth&#8221; and the &#8220;right&#8221; are synonyms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/authors\/m\/mark_twain.html\">Here&#8217;s a page<\/a> of Twain quotes twelve\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0which are\u00c2\u00a0about the truth. Some of\u00c2\u00a0them (the sly and cynical ones) contradict the one above.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Always do right. This will gratify most people and astonish the rest.&#8221; I&#8217;m sorry to say that I had misremembered the above quote. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}