{"id":1221,"date":"2007-05-14T00:09:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2010-01-20T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:01:07","slug":"1217-of-there-goes-giuliani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"[1217] Of there goes Giuliani"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">\u2014 Rudolph W. Giuliani,  <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9A01E2D9173CF933A15750C0A962958260\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Freedom Is About Authority&#8217;: Excerpts From Giuliani Speech on Crime<\/a>. March 20 1994.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While authority to some extent is desired, ceding &#8220;<em>a great deal of discretion about what you do<\/em>&#8221; to the authority sounds wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it is not too hard to strike Giuliani off the list. Bye bye.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, how well do you know the candidates for the office of the President of the United States of America?<\/p>\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics.nytimes.com\/packages\/flash\/weekinreview\/20070513_REPUBQUIZ_FEATURE\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">an NYT quiz<\/a> to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. \u2014 Rudolph W. Giuliani, &#8216;Freedom Is About Authority&#8217;: Excerpts From Giuliani Speech on Crime. March 20 1994. While authority to some extent is desired, ceding &#8220;a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[132,694,319],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics-government","tag-republicans","tag-rudoph-giuliani","tag-us-presidential-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}