{"id":500,"date":"2007-01-21T20:08:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T00:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2007-01-21T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T00:09:40","slug":"so-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/so-true\/","title":{"rendered":"So true&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230; Societies do not usually<br \/>\nlose their freedom at a blow.<\/p>\n<p>They give it up bit by bit,<br \/>\nletting themselves be tied down<br \/>\nwith an infinity of little knots.<\/p>\n<p>As rules and regulations<br \/>\nincrease, their range of actions<br \/>\nis gradually compressed.<br \/>\nTheir options slowly lessen.<\/p>\n<p>Without noticing the change,<br \/>\nthey become wards of state.<br \/>\nThey imagine themselves still<br \/>\nfree, but in a thousand and one<br \/>\nways, their choices are limited<br \/>\nand guided by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>And always, there are<br \/>\nwhat seem to be sensible<br \/>\nreasons for letting their<br \/>\nautonomy be peeled away\u2014<br \/>\n&#8220;safety,&#8221; &#8220;health,&#8221; &#8220;social<br \/>\njustice,&#8221; &#8220;equal opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to become<br \/>\naccustomed to docility.<br \/>\nThat is why eternal vigilance<br \/>\nis the price of liberty.<br \/>\nNot because liberty is easy<br \/>\nto shatter. But because it can<br \/>\nbe softened and dismantled<br \/>\nwith the acquiescence of the<br \/>\nvery men and women from<br \/>\nwhom it is being stolen.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Jeff Jacoby, columnist,<br \/>\nBoston Globe <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230; Societies do not usually lose their freedom at a blow. They give it up bit by bit, letting themselves be tied down with an infinity of little knots. As rules and regulations increase, their range of actions is gradually compressed. Their options slowly lessen. Without noticing the change, they become wards of state. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}