{"id":1747,"date":"2012-06-11T04:13:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T04:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2012-06-11T04:13:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T04:13:52","slug":"pertinent_quote_for_our_times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"Pertinent Quote for our times&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron&#8217;s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience &#8230;. To be &#8216;cured&#8217; against one&#8217;s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img mt-image-left zemanta-action-dragged\" style=\"margin:1em;display:block;float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/C.S.%2BLewis\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/126\/389673.gif\" alt=\"C.S. Lewis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\">Cover of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/C.S.%2BLewis\">C.S. Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>those who have not yet reached the age of reason &#8230; You start being &#8216;kind&#8217; to people before you have considered their rights, and then force upon them supposed kindnesses which they in fact had a right to refuse, and finally kindnesses which no one but you will recognize as kindnesses and which the recipient will feel as abominable cruelties.&#8221; &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=5679bede-2259-4204-afd9-7d4fad9ebde1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron&#8217;s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1747\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicsculture","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}