{"id":1287,"date":"2013-07-14T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2013-07-14T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:49:27","slug":"innocence-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"Innocence lost&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is more important that innocence should be protected, than it is that guilt be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that all of them cannot be punished&#8230;. But when innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, &#8216;It is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security.&#8217; And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in the mind of the subject that would be the end of all security whatsoever&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-John Adams<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is more important that innocence should be protected, than it is that guilt be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that all of them cannot be punished&#8230;. But when innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, &#8216;It is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security.&#8217; And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1287\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-kL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}