{"id":309,"date":"2008-09-13T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2008-09-13T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T21:02:38","slug":"how-the-la-times-defines-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/how-the-la-times-defines-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"How the LA Times defines &#8220;freedom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-fbi13-2008sep13,0,4696825.story\">this article<\/a>, the LA Times headline helpfully explains that, &#8220;New rules would give FBI more freedom in U.S. operations.&#8221;  That&#8217;s right, the editors there apparently consider giving government agents more leeway to spy upon, deceive, and coerce its citizens as a form of &#8220;freedom.&#8221;  Did I miss something in my civics classes?  Or is this just the intermediate step to Orwell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Plot\">definition<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, the LA Times headline helpfully explains that, &#8220;New rules would give FBI more freedom in U.S. operations.&#8221; That&#8217;s right, the editors there apparently consider giving government agents more leeway to spy upon, deceive, and coerce its citizens as a form of &#8220;freedom.&#8221; Did I miss something in my civics classes? Or is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}