{"id":281,"date":"2005-11-30T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T17:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2005-11-30T09:59:26","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T17:59:26","slug":"the-quotable-augustine-sovereignty-and-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2005\/11\/30\/the-quotable-augustine-sovereignty-and-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quotable Augustine &#8212; Sovereignty and the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More gems from Augustine&#8217;s City of God:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;each man, like a letter in a word, is an integral part of a city or of a kingdom, however extensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized brigandage?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Book IV, Chapters 3 and 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More gems from Augustine&#8217;s City of God: &#8220;&#8230;each man, like a letter in a word, is an integral part of a city or of a kingdom, however extensive.&#8221; &#8220;In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized brigandage?&#8221; From Book IV, Chapters 3 and 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-4x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}