{"id":39348,"date":"2025-02-08T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=39348"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:38:15","slug":"thomas-paine-on-the-american-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/thomas-paine-on-the-american-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMAS PAINE ON \u201cTHE AMERICAN CRISIS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62504\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Image from Amazon.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The American Crisis<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Thomas Paine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 23, 1776<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>THESE are the times that try men\u2019s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. . . . (ushistory.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 \u2013 June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, and political philosopher.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Paine\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image from Amazon.com) The American Crisis by Thomas Paine December 23, 1776 THESE are the times that try men\u2019s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/thomas-paine-on-the-american-crisis\/\"> 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":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39348"}],"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=39348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39351,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39348\/revisions\/39351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}