{"id":56798,"date":"2024-08-26T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T01:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/?p=56798"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T02:05:00","slug":"one-or-two-takeaways-from-the-life-of-victor-davis-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/one-or-two-takeaways-from-the-life-of-victor-davis-hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"One or two takeaways from the life of Victor Davis Hanson."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I embed a video of a conversation between Peter Robinson and Victor Davis Hanson here. If I could add a title in the midst of VDH&#8217;s name, I would add &#8220;Diligent&#8221; to &#8220;Davis&#8221;. How he managed to be a Professor and farm at the same time is beyond me. All I can say is that he is definitely a role model where the quality of &#8220;Diligence&#8221; is concerned. We ought to take note when VDH says that so many people have no &#8220;physicality&#8221; and are therefore more likely to fall prey to fallacies of entitlement and being superior to folks who are much more &#8220;agrarian&#8221; than themselves. We see this all around us in this world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Do watch the conversation in its entirety, as I always say. Come back to me if you would like to discuss it. I will soon include reading short paragraphs or so from VDH&#8217;s books, which I have yet to purchase, but I intend to soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9o-68M0bCU?si=AcWEtvPQAGgpggZj\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I embed a video of a conversation between Peter Robinson and Victor Davis Hanson here. If I could add a title in the midst of VDH&#8217;s name, I would add &#8220;Diligent&#8221; to &#8220;Davis&#8221;. How he managed to be a Professor and farm at the same time is beyond me. All I can say is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VDH-qualities-2024-08-26-e1724638144905.jpg?fit=208%2C307&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-eM6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56800,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56798\/revisions\/56800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}