{"id":7785,"date":"2018-02-11T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7785"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:10:06","slug":"eugene-v-debs-promised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/11\/eugene-v-debs-promised-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene V. Debs on the Promised Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/eugene-v-debs-promised-land\/idebseu001p1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11171\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11171\" src=\"http:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Debs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a\u00a0<a title=\"Moses\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Moses\">Moses<\/a>\u00a0to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are.\u00a0I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.\u00a0You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 &#8211; October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.\u00a0<a class=\"q _KCd _tWc fl\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene_V._Debs\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwj594qr757ZAhVow4MKHflHD7EQmhMIxgEwHQ\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mod\" data-md=\"1001\" data-hveid=\"204\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwj594qr757ZAhVow4MKHflHD7EQkCkIzAEoBDAg\">\n<div class=\"_eFb\">\n<div class=\"_mr kno-fb-ctx\" data-attrid=\"kc:\/people\/deceased_person:died\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwj594qr757ZAhVow4MKHflHD7EQyxMIzQEoADAg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a\u00a0Moses\u00a0to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are.\u00a0I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/11\/eugene-v-debs-promised-land\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7787,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions\/7787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}