{"id":86,"date":"2009-07-16T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T15:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T15:04:49","slug":"rephrasing-ben-franklins-old-aphorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/rephrasing-ben-franklins-old-aphorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Rephrasing Ben Franklin&#8217;s old aphorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin is often quoted as having said &#8220;Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety&#8221;. Here&#8217;s a modern rephrasing, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/134831.html\" target=\"_blank\">The more you cede your own well-being to an 800-pound gorilla, the more that 800-pound gorilla is going to act like a thin-skinned asshole.<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>(Cross-posted to the old blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005589.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005589.html<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin is often quoted as having said &#8220;Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety&#8221;. Here&#8217;s a modern rephrasing, &#8220;The more you cede your own well-being to an 800-pound gorilla, the more that 800-pound gorilla is going to act like a thin-skinned asshole.&#8220;. (Cross-posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,53,41,13],"tags":[56,55],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-arizona","tag-benjaminfranklin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}