{"id":193277,"date":"2021-09-06T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=193277"},"modified":"2021-09-06T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T12:09:24","slug":"those-who-can-give-up-essential-liberty-for-a-little-temporary-safety-deserve-neither-liberty-nor-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/those-who-can-give-up-essential-liberty-for-a-little-temporary-safety-deserve-neither-liberty-nor-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Those who can give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first United States Postmaster General. <\/em>Wikipedia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_193278\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/benjamin-franklin.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193278\" class=\"wp-image-193278 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/benjamin-franklin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/benjamin-franklin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/benjamin-franklin-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/benjamin-franklin-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/benjamin-franklin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">History.com<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first United States Postmaster General. Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":193278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2255],"class_list":["post-193277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193277","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=193277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}