{"id":3087,"date":"2022-07-04T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2022-07-04T05:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T09:39:08","slug":"at-what-point-shall-we-expect-the-approach-of-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/07\/at-what-point-shall-we-expect-the-approach-of-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;At what point shall we expect the approach of danger?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p>All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth &hellip;, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. <strong><font color=black>If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.<\/font><\/strong><\/p><cite>Abraham Lincoln, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abrahamlincolnonline.org\/lincoln\/speeches\/lyceum.htm\">Lyceum Address<\/a>, January 27, 1838<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth &hellip;, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/07\/at-what-point-shall-we-expect-the-approach-of-danger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;At what point shall we expect the approach of danger?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,744,77,781,526,53,414],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}