{"id":51997,"date":"2015-03-13T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51997"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:31:58","slug":"a-thought-in-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51997","title":{"rendered":"A Thought In Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where &#8220;endless one-sided talk about principles&#8221; is checkers, &#8220;taking those principles to a legislature that&#8217;s at least partly full of people that disagree with you, and trying to turn those principles into policy&#8221; is chess.<\/p>\n<p>And one of the big reasons I left the Libertarian Party, and criticize the &#8220;Liberty movement&#8221; so often these days, is not so much that so many of them play checkers (that&#8217;s true of most people in any party), but that so m any of their loudest voices have convinced themselves that playing chess instead of endless rounds of checkers is a moral offense and a distraction that diverts one from the purity of checkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where &#8220;endless one-sided talk about principles&#8221; is checkers, &#8220;taking those principles to a legislature that&#8217;s at least partly full of people that disagree with you, and trying to turn those principles into policy&#8221; is chess. And one of the big reasons I left the Libertarian Party, and criticize the &#8220;Liberty movement&#8221; so often these days, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51999,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51997\/revisions\/51999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}