{"id":2307,"date":"2016-10-24T06:58:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T02:01:19","slug":"monday-morning-insight-good-manners-part-ii-heinlein-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/monday-morning-insight-good-manners-part-ii-heinlein-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Insight: Good Manners, Part II (Heinlein Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Another in the continuing series of quotes to start the week<\/a>.)<\/em><\/h5>\n

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Last week in this series I presented a quote from Jonathan Swift on the meaning of mannerly behavior. This week I’m offering up a quote from Science Fiction Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Friday<\/em> (emphasis in original):<\/p>\n

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms … but a dying<\/strong> culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure that needs much commentary, so I’ll just insert this relevant image:<\/p>\n

\"Well,<\/a><\/p>\n

(Image: “Well, amen (etc.)” by Francesca Castelli, on Flickr under Creative Commons.)<\/em><\/h5>\n

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Have a great week….<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Another in the continuing series of quotes to start the week.)   Last week in this series I presented a quote from Jonathan Swift on the meaning of mannerly behavior. This week I’m offering up a quote from Science Fiction Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Friday (emphasis in original): \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}