{"id":89,"date":"2004-07-21T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=89"},"modified":"2004-07-21T20:30:24","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T01:30:24","slug":"the-first-amendment-according-to-michael-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/07\/21\/the-first-amendment-according-to-michael-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Amendment according to Michael Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Moore confuses government interference with the right to excercise control over one&#8217;s own property.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOver at QandO, McQ has a <a href=\"http:\/\/qando.net\/archives\/003603.htm\">great analysis<\/a> of Moore&#8217;s fallacious assumption to the contrary.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.<\/em> &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Moore confuses government interference with the right to excercise control over one&#8217;s own property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moore-is-less"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-1r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}