{"id":10219,"date":"2011-11-04T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/04\/a-bit-of-freedom-comes-to-castros-island\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:21:57","slug":"a-bit-of-freedom-comes-to-castros-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/04\/a-bit-of-freedom-comes-to-castros-island\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Freedom Comes to Castro&#8217;s Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.&#0160; In his socialist worker&#39;s paradise home ownership was legally forbidden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/04\/world\/americas\/cubans-can-buy-and-sell-property-government-says.html\" target=\"_self\">until just now<\/a>.&#0160; Suppose you were 30 in &#39;59, at the age when many are in a position to buy a house for the first time.&#0160; Well, now you are 82 with a year to live.&#0160; You can buy a house to die in.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ain&#39;t socialism grand?&#0160; That&#39;s why leftists want it here, there, and everywhere.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Private property is the foundation of individual liberty.&#0160; This being Friday afternoon, I reckon I&#39;ll fix me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/drinks\/cuba-libre-drink-recipe\" target=\"_self\">Cuba Libre<\/a> and hoist my glass to liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.&#0160; In his socialist worker&#39;s paradise home ownership was legally forbidden until just now.&#0160; Suppose you were 30 in &#39;59, at the age when many are in a position to buy a house for the first time.&#0160; Well, now you are 82 with a year to live.&#0160; You can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/04\/a-bit-of-freedom-comes-to-castros-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Bit of Freedom Comes to Castro&#8217;s Island&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}