{"id":896,"date":"2013-03-07T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=896"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:14:52","slug":"frank-herbert-governments-tend-increasingly-toward-aristocratic-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/896\/quotes\/frank-herbert-governments-tend-increasingly-toward-aristocratic-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Herbert: Governments&#8230; tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class &#8211; whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p><i>Children of Dune<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class &#8211; whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/896\/quotes\/frank-herbert-governments-tend-increasingly-toward-aristocratic-forms\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[216,217],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-blow-it-up","tag-the-problem-of-governing","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}