{"id":24137,"date":"2015-03-04T07:37:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=24137"},"modified":"2015-03-05T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:09:09","slug":"radical-not-bad-if-rooted-in-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/radical-not-bad-if-rooted-in-good\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Radical\u2019 Not Bad If Rooted In Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2015\/01\/radical-not-bad-if-rooted-in-good.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/StandAgainstWind.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>KentForLiberty.com<\/a> | Being &#8220;radical&#8221; has gotten a bad name due to horrible acts committed by evil radicals. The fault doesn&#8217;t lie in being radical; it comes from being radical about bad things, or beliefs, which convince people it&#8217;s acceptable to use aggression, coercion, and theft to advance their cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Radical&#8221; is from the Latin word radix, meaning &#8220;root&#8221;. Most of the definitions of the word I have seen make the point that radicals &#8220;go down to the root&#8221;- to the very foundation of their beliefs. Another term for radical is &#8220;fundamentalist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s another facet to the word.<\/p>\n<p>Being &#8220;radical&#8221; also means you are rooted; grounded. You are not tossed around by changing winds. Unlike a tumbleweed broken free of its roots, you stand firm as the gusts blow others off their feet.<\/p>\n<p>In other words to be &#8220;radical&#8221; merely indicates you have principles. Those principles can be either good or bad. Most people seem to shy away from having principles of any kind. Too limiting, I suppose. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2015\/01\/radical-not-bad-if-rooted-in-good.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Kent McManigal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KentForLiberty.com | Being &#8220;radical&#8221; has gotten a bad name due to horrible acts committed by evil radicals. The fault doesn&#8217;t lie in being radical; it comes from being radical about bad things, or beliefs, which convince people it&#8217;s acceptable to use aggression, coercion, and theft to advance their cause. &#8220;Radical&#8221; is from the Latin word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[1505,490,1504],"class_list":["post-24137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fundamentalism","tag-principles","tag-radical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}