{"id":7030,"date":"2023-02-12T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:12","slug":"open-and-shut-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7030","title":{"rendered":"OPEN AND SHUT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems to me that in recent years American culture has made its goal to become as open minded as possible. And there are aspects of that goal which are commendable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But perhaps we have overshot the target.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a couple of quotes &#8211; from decades past &#8211; yet wise words of warning for present times:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Cursed is he that does not know when to shut his mind. An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little draughty.&#8221; Novelist Samuel Butler<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Otherwise it is more akin to a sewer, taking in all things equally.\u201d G.K. Chesterton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that in recent years American culture has made its goal to become as open minded as possible. And there are aspects of that goal which are commendable.\u00a0 But perhaps we have overshot the target.\u00a0 Here are a couple of quotes &#8211; from decades past &#8211; yet wise words of warning for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7031,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions\/7031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}