{"id":1521,"date":"2015-10-20T22:49:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T22:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:26:28","slug":"a-hard-core-of-evil-in-the-soul-of-humankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A hard core of evil in the soul of humankind?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/151020Franklin.jpg\" alt=\"151020Franklin\" width=\"260\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/151020Franklin.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/151020Franklin-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Oct. 20, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c(Richard Beck\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1481\">We Believe the Children<\/a>\u201d) addresses only the question of why those events unfolded in the particular way that they did, at one particular moment \u2013 not why this hydralike form of communal social hysteria can be stamped out in one place only to rear another ugly head elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cPerhaps there is no answer to that question \u2013 or, at least, no answer we want to hear. Politics, social mores, human psychology, a rye-eating fungus: all these submit calmly to our investigations. But a hard core of evil in the soul of humankind? That might be the real witchcraft, one we dare not examine too closely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2015\/11\/trial-and-error-2\/?single=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Trial and Error<\/em><\/a><em>: Three centuries of American witch hunts\u201d\u00a0by Ruth Franklin in Harper\u2019s Magazine (Oct. 17)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 20, 2015 \u201c(Richard Beck\u2019s \u201cWe Believe the Children\u201d) addresses only the question of why those events unfolded in the particular way that they did, at one particular moment \u2013 not why this hydralike form of communal social hysteria can be stamped out in one place only to rear another ugly head elsewhere. \u201cPerhaps there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}