{"id":551,"date":"2002-10-23T13:03:05","date_gmt":"2002-10-23T21:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=551"},"modified":"2004-10-22T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T23:07:14","slug":"ends-and-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"ends and means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The copyright clause of the US Constitution says: &#8220;Congress shall have power .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other than the Preamble, is this the only passage of the form &#8220;to do something general by doing something specific&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The copyright clause of the US Constitution says: &#8220;Congress shall have power .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=551\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}