{"id":2272,"date":"2021-12-24T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/24\/use-it-or-lose-it\/"},"modified":"2021-12-24T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:49:12","slug":"use-it-or-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/24\/use-it-or-lose-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Use it or Lose it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/is-there-a-political-use-it-or-lose?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">If you want to maintain your physical fitness, you must exercise regularly.&#0160;<em>Use it or lose it!<\/em>&#0160; Not so long ago&#0160; I thought that the same principle had a political application: if you want to maintain your freedoms, you must exercise them.&#0160;&#0160;<em>Use &#39;em or lose &#39;em!<\/em>&#0160;But times have changed.&#0160; And when times change, the wise re-evaluate. I&#39;ll give two examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. If you want to maintain your physical fitness, you must exercise regularly.&#0160;Use it or lose it!&#0160; Not so long ago&#0160; I thought that the same principle had a political application: if you want to maintain your freedoms, you must exercise them.&#0160;&#0160;Use &#39;em or lose &#39;em!&#0160;But times have changed.&#0160; And when times change, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/24\/use-it-or-lose-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use it or Lose it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,44,530,311,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-dissimulation","category-political-tactics","category-prudence","category-rights-and-duties","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}