{"id":4178,"date":"2008-01-04T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:43:06","slug":"abrogation-of-freedom-comes-easy-to-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/abrogation-of-freedom-comes-easy-to-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrogation of Freedom Comes Easy to Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know why I don&#8217;t tend to read the letters to the editor in the local papers?  Because many of them read like this <a href=\"http:\/\/callnewspapers.com\/Articles-i-2008-01-02-210111.112112_Freedom_to_choose_ends_when_it_impinges_on_right_to_a_clean_planet.html\" target=\"_new\">thoughtless screed<\/a>, summed up with the pithy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your freedom to choose ends when it impinges on my right to a clean planet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, revel, revel, gentle reader, in that principle.  Your basic freedom ends where it impinges upon my freedom to an arbitrary, aesthetically determined freedom.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t think that your freedoms would not continue being abrogated until such time as everyone achieves the same level of misery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know why I don&#8217;t tend to read the letters to the editor in the local papers? Because many of them read like this thoughtless screed, summed up with the pithy: Your freedom to choose ends when it impinges on my right to a clean planet. Oh, revel, revel, gentle reader, in that principle. Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17213,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/17213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}