{"id":958,"date":"2005-05-21T00:35:03","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T04:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2005\/05\/21\/958\/"},"modified":"2005-05-21T00:35:03","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T04:35:03","slug":"958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2005\/05\/21\/958\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For in a Republic, who is &#8216;the country?&#8217; Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant &#8212; merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn&#8217;t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.<br \/>&#8211; Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)<\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p>A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.<br \/>&#8211; Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist<br \/>Source: The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870), p. 28.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For in a Republic, who is &#8216;the country?&#8217; Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant &#8212; merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn&#8217;t. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}