{"id":5510,"date":"2017-05-19T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/19\/national-security-agency\/"},"modified":"2017-05-19T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:03:45","slug":"national-security-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/19\/national-security-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"National Security Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I was joking with somebody recently about blog backup.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&quot;Why do I need to back up my blog?&quot; said I. &quot;The NSA has every word.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Joking aside, the underlying issue is a vexing one. &#0160;There is no true liberty without security, but a security worth wanting must make allowance for a large measure of liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It is a case of competing values. One of my early posts (13 May 2004) explores the dialectic. I gave it the catchy title, <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blogspot.com\/2004\/05\/liberty-and-security.html\">Liberty and Security<\/a>. Damn, if it&#39;s not good! By the way, one of the many pleasures of blogging is re-reading and re-enjoying one&#39;s old writings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was joking with somebody recently about blog backup.&#0160; &quot;Why do I need to back up my blog?&quot; said I. &quot;The NSA has every word.&quot; Joking aside, the underlying issue is a vexing one. &#0160;There is no true liberty without security, but a security worth wanting must make allowance for a large measure of liberty. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/19\/national-security-agency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Security Agency&#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":[242,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","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=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}