{"id":3955,"date":"2020-08-23T22:25:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/08\/23\/to-be-led-by-a-coward-is-to-be\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T22:25:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T22:25:36","slug":"to-be-led-by-a-coward-is-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/08\/23\/to-be-led-by-a-coward-is-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To be led by a coward is to be&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"retweet-attribution\"><em>Retweeted from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brainpicker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@brainpicker<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tweet-body\">&#8220;To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.<br \/>\nTo be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Octavia Butler\u2014writing decades ago in a prophetic book set in the 2020s\u2014on how (not) to choose our leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2020\/08\/23\/octavia-butler-parable-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.brainpickings.org\/2020\/08\/23\/octavia-butler-pa&hellip;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brainpicker\/status\/1297622916692168704\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twitter.com\/brainpicker\/status\/1297622916692168704&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retweeted from @brainpicker &#8220;To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.&#8221; Octavia Butler\u2014writing decades ago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/08\/23\/to-be-led-by-a-coward-is-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-tweet","post_format-post-format-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}