{"id":832,"date":"2009-07-25T14:57:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T06:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shihmingte.org\/en\/?p=832"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:53:39","slug":"20090725-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shihmingte.org\/en\/20090725-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"832\" class=\"elementor elementor-832\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d1281c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6d1281c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd692b9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dd692b9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" 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class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d940b60 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d940b60\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Book Launch: Common Sense<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02498e8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"02498e8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Something that was long taboo,<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>that politicians now talk about any way they please,<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>that schools never teach, and that parents can never answer:<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>which country do we belong to,<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>after all?<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>A matter this simple is, like sex,<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>just a sensitive piece of common sense in our everyday lives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that was long taboo, that politicians now talk about any way they please, that schools never teach, and that parents can never answer: which country do we belong to, after all? 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