{"id":175250,"date":"2020-12-21T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=175250"},"modified":"2021-01-25T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T07:42:00","slug":"they-who-can-give-up-essential-liberty-to-obtain-a-little-temporary-safety-deserve-neither-liberty-nor-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/12\/they-who-can-give-up-essential-liberty-to-obtain-a-little-temporary-safety-deserve-neither-liberty-nor-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Benjamin Franklin was a British-American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ben_Franklin.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-175251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ben_Franklin-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ben_Franklin-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ben_Franklin.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin was a British-American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":175251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2320,2255],"class_list":["post-175250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}