{"id":382,"date":"2008-10-21T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/21\/freedom-is-free\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T21:37:02","slug":"freedom-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/21\/freedom-is-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom IS free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/opinion\/384008_firstperson20.html\">thoughtful guest editorial<\/a> in today&#8217;s P-I gave me a new perspective. I hadn&#8217;t thought to challenge the right-wing mantra that &#8220;freedom isn&#8217;t free,&#8221; but this Iraq war veteran counters that &#8220;everybody is free&#8230; at the simple price of being born as a human.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a short excerpt. I recommend reading <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/opinion\/384008_firstperson20.html\">the whole thing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<ul>\nThe nature of freedom apparently is too abstract for some people to grasp; at its dialectical core is a built-in paradigm that holds life as fundamentally sacred, and liberty as a God-granted right. Rights do not cost, only politics do. By charging for something that is free, politics has created a new form of &#8220;freedom capital,&#8221; to be measured in blood and body counts and to be spent at the polls.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thoughtful guest editorial in today&#8217;s P-I gave me a new perspective. I hadn&#8217;t thought to challenge the right-wing mantra that &#8220;freedom isn&#8217;t free,&#8221; but this Iraq war veteran counters that &#8220;everybody is free&#8230; at the simple price of being born as a human.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a short excerpt. I recommend reading the whole thing. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}