{"id":41240,"date":"2019-12-03T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41240"},"modified":"2019-12-02T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:27:06","slug":"qotd-defending-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/qotd-defending-freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Defending freedom of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><div id=\"attachment_48842\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/H.L.-Mencken-1928.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48842\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/H.L.-Mencken-1928-415x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/H.L.-Mencken-1928-415x600.jpg 415w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/H.L.-Mencken-1928-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/H.L.-Mencken-1928-443x640.jpg 443w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/H.L.-Mencken-1928.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">H.L. Mencken in 1928.<br \/>Photo by Ben Pinchot for <em>Theatre Magazine<\/em>, August 1928.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one&#8217;s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.<\/p>\n<p>H.L. Mencken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one&#8217;s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. H.L. Mencken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,41],"tags":[459,186,591],"class_list":["post-41240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-hlmencken"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aJa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53244,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41240\/revisions\/53244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}