{"id":52284,"date":"2024-05-26T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52284"},"modified":"2024-05-25T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:07:35","slug":"qotd-ever-expanding-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/26\/qotd-ever-expanding-government\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Ever-expanding government"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Where government advances &mdash; and it advances relentlessly &mdash; freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized &#8230; When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems?<\/p>\n<p>Janice Rogers Brown, &#8220;Hyphenasia: the Mercy Killing of the American Dream,&#8221; Speech at Claremont-McKenna College (Sept. 16, 1999).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where government advances &mdash; and it advances relentlessly &mdash; freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized &#8230; When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems? Janice Rogers Brown, &#8220;Hyphenasia: the Mercy Killing of the American Dream,&#8221; Speech at Claremont-McKenna College [&hellip;]<\/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":[84,10,41,13],"tags":[550],"class_list":["post-52284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-libertarianism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dBi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284","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=52284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89221,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284\/revisions\/89221"}],"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=52284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}