{"id":1500,"date":"2004-11-10T10:14:55","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T18:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2006-11-10T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T04:18:57","slug":"qotd-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"QotD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H L Mencken, <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyunbound.com\/archive\/2004_12\/editors-anarchy.html\">quoted<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/daviddfriedman.com\/\">David Friedman<\/a> in the December issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyunbound.com\/\"><i>Liberty<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn nothing did the founders of this country so demonstrate their essential na&iuml;vet&eacute; than in attempting to constrain government from all of its favorite abuses, and entrusting the enforcement of these protections to judges; that is to say, men who had been lawyers; that is to say, men professionally trained in finding plausible excuses for dishonest and dishonorable acts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H L Mencken, quoted by David Friedman in the December issue of Liberty In nothing did the founders of this country so demonstrate their essential na&iuml;vet&eacute; than in attempting to constrain government from all of its favorite abuses, and entrusting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1500\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}