{"id":142,"date":"2016-11-06T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/?p=142"},"modified":"2019-09-21T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T22:02:34","slug":"liberalism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In trying to define my beliefs, there is a single quote that sums it up perfectly. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By liberalism I don&#8217;t mean the creed of any party or any century. I mean a generosity of spirit, a tolerance of others, an attempt to comprehend otherness, a commitment to the rule of law, a high ideal of the worth and dignity of man, a repugnance of authoritarianism and a love of freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Alan Paton, South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country, 1953<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst I try and apply these principles in daily life, I&#8217;m far from perfect and tolerance isn&#8217;t always easy and is certainly not universally deserving. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In trying to define my beliefs, there is a single quote that sums it up perfectly. \u00a0 \u00a0 By liberalism I don&#8217;t mean the creed of any party or any century. I mean a generosity of spirit, a tolerance of others, an attempt to comprehend otherness, a commitment to the rule of law, a high&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/?p=142\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberalism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&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":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independentliberal.mymanchester.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}