{"id":1472,"date":"1831-01-01T20:33:03","date_gmt":"1831-01-01T20:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2014-01-25T21:23:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:23:12","slug":"commitment-to-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/commitment-to-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Commitment to Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Garrison makes his now-famous statement:\u00a0 &#8220;I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? 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