{"id":15043,"date":"2012-04-15T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2012-04-15T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:11:11","slug":"clement-attlee-on-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/15\/clement-attlee-on-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Clement Attlee on charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clement Attlee\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clement_Attlee\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u00a0this in 1920<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In very many ways nothing has changed since then.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: Sandra Crawford<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clement Attlee\u00a0wrote\u00a0this in 1920: Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/04\/15\/clement-attlee-on-charity\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}