{"id":15614,"date":"2013-12-26T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15614"},"modified":"2013-12-26T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T20:56:07","slug":"two-challengers-both-one-of-a-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/26\/two-challengers-both-one-of-a-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Challengers \u2013 Both One of a Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I took Ralph Nader’s advice and went over to his website<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The first article that caught my attention was Two Challengers \u2013 Both One of a Kind<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two distinctly different Americans with distinctly similar, independent thinking and progressive values passed away last week. The great accounting professor Abraham Briloff (age 96) who relentlessly and brilliantly took apart the failures of his profession to insist on honest and ethical corporate accounting, and Tom Laughlin (age 82), the jolting producer and star of the \u2018Billy Jack\u2019 films who broke the Hollywood industry\u2019s rules with sagas of fighting for justice. Although they never knew each other, they both championed fair play and courage to face the grim realities of the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, I had never heard of Briloff, but I do remember Tom Laughlin and his \u2018Billy Jack\u2019 films. Unfortunately, I never appreciated what ‘Billy Jack’ was all about.\u00a0 Or maybe, I’d had enough of that genre in the Walking Tall<\/strong><\/a> movies with Joe Don Baker.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom (sic) almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is only so much fighting a losing battle for truth and justice that one can take.\u00a0 Your threshold may be much different from mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I took Ralph Nader’s advice and went over to his website.\u00a0 The first article that caught my attention was Two Challengers \u2013 Both One of a Kind. Two distinctly different Americans with distinctly similar, independent thinking and progressive values passed away last week. The great accounting professor Abraham Briloff (age 96) who relentlessly and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15615,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions\/15615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}