{"id":2270,"date":"2017-01-20T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:17:34","slug":"with-the-right-kind-if-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=2270","title":{"rendered":"With The Right Kind If Eyes&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>With The Right Kind If Eyes&#8230;..<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&quot;There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .<\/p>\n<p>And that, I think, was the handle\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting\u00e2\u20ac\u201don our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .<\/p>\n<p>So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.&quot;<br \/>Hunter S Thompson\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TomHiggins\/posts\/Fgb6f9cqAx8\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With The Right Kind If Eyes&#8230;.. &quot;There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . And that, I think, was the handle\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}