{"id":9274,"date":"2012-10-22T16:48:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/22\/liberty-forever-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-22T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:48:21","slug":"liberty-forever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/22\/liberty-forever-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017ee45d57a0970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liberty stamp\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c017ee45d57a0970d\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017ee45d57a0970d-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Liberty stamp\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">How many Americans care about liberty?&#0160; The depressing fact that Obama may well win the election shows that&#0160;vast numbers of Americans care more about <em>panem et circenses<\/em>, bread and circuses, than about liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We&#39;re running on fumes.&#0160; The stamp is border-line Orwellian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Time was, when liberty was a state.&#0160; Now it&#39;s a stamp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443684104578067041987322754.html\" target=\"_self\">Dorothy Rabinowitz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/do-we-believe-anymore\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_self\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Americans care about liberty?&#0160; The depressing fact that Obama may well win the election shows that&#0160;vast numbers of Americans care more about panem et circenses, bread and circuses, than about liberty. We&#39;re running on fumes.&#0160; The stamp is border-line Orwellian. Time was, when liberty was a state.&#0160; Now it&#39;s a stamp. Dorothy Rabinowitz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/22\/liberty-forever-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liberty Forever?&#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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274","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=9274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}