{"id":27461,"date":"2023-07-19T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T02:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27461"},"modified":"2023-07-19T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T02:59:17","slug":"book-the-american-soul-rediscovering-the-wisdom-of-the-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/book-the-american-soul-rediscovering-the-wisdom-of-the-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cTHE AMERICAN SOUL: REDISCOVERING THE WISDOM OF THE FOUNDERS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/photo\/605935.The_American_Soul\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1398243686l\/605935.jpg\" alt=\"The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bookTitle\">The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/17940.Jacob_Needleman\">Jacob Needleman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the lives of America\u2019s founders-including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin-scholar and bestselling author Jacob Needleman explores their core of inner beliefs; their religious and spiritual sensibilities; and their individual conception of the purpose of life.&nbsp;The founders, Needleman argues, conceived of an \u201cinner democracy\u201d: a continual pursuit of wisdom and self-improvement that would undergird the outer democracy in which we live today. Any understanding of America as a nation of spiritual values will in the years ahead require Needleman\u2019s work as a point of reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders by&nbsp;Jacob Needleman Looking at the lives of America\u2019s founders-including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin-scholar and bestselling author Jacob Needleman explores their core of inner beliefs; their religious and spiritual sensibilities; and their individual conception of the purpose of life.&nbsp;The founders, Needleman argues,&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/book-the-american-soul-rediscovering-the-wisdom-of-the-founders\/\"> 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":[825,824],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27462,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27461\/revisions\/27462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}