{"id":2604,"date":"2016-12-31T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2016-12-31T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:22:35","slug":"what-ben-franklin-really-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"What Ben Franklin Really Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Franklin was thus complaining of the choice facing the legislature between being able to make funds available for frontier defense and maintaining its right of self-governance&#8211;and he was criticizing the governor for suggesting it should be willing to give up the latter to ensure the former.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/what-ben-franklin-really-said\">What Ben Franklin Really Said &#8211; Lawfare<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franklin was thus complaining of the choice facing the legislature between being able to make funds available for frontier defense and maintaining its right of self-governance&#8211;and he was criticizing the governor for suggesting it should be willing to give up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2604\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}