{"id":486,"date":"2011-06-01T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2011-06-07T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:46:32","slug":"why-do-people-think-i-was-ever-a-hippie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Why do people think I was ever a Hippie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Paul a Hippie? A colleague suggested this because I often wear a peace badge or peace T-shirts. OK, HUAC, I may be guilty of being a Quaker pacifist revolutionary socialist, and I have been a friend and fellow traveler of a number of\u00a0 other peaceful revolutionary socialists over the decades, but I do affirm (I don\u2019t swear&#8212; Quaker, remember) that I was never a hippie.<!--more--> I wear peace items because I believe in peace activism and think this is important, not as decoration or ornament the way hippies might have and many others do today. I wouldn\u2019t have been caught dead at Woodstock. I have nothing against hippies, but at that historical period (of which younger people are apparently ignorant), I was busy earning my Ph.D. at Princeton and spending days and nights at Villanova as a new faculty member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Paul a Hippie? A colleague suggested this because I often wear a peace badge or peace T-shirts. OK, HUAC, I may be guilty of being a Quaker pacifist revolutionary socialist, and I have been a friend and fellow traveler of a number of\u00a0 other peaceful revolutionary socialists over the decades, but I do affirm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humor","category-peace","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}