{"id":4280,"date":"2020-05-27T18:16:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2020-05-27T18:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T23:16:59","slug":"freedom-with-vigilance-vs-security-with-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4280","title":{"rendered":"FREEDOM (WITH VIGILANCE)&#8212;VS&#8212; SECURITY (WITH CONTROL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The natural default human experience is a drift toward the promise of security&#8212;with a drift toward the loss of freedom.<br \/>\nThis experience happens with no conscious effort by the people&#8212;with a plan for taking control by a small group at the top.<br \/>\nThe reversal of this typical experience, to gain and maintain freedom, requires very conscious effort and sustained faith and sacrifice.<br \/>\nIt calls for strength beyond human nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The natural default human experience is a drift toward the promise of security&#8212;with a drift toward the loss of freedom. This experience happens with no conscious effort by the people&#8212;with a plan for taking control by a small group at the top. The reversal of this typical experience, to gain and maintain freedom, requires very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}