{"id":1437,"date":"2011-02-09T11:17:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:17:02","slug":"thomas-paine-self-defense-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/thomas-paine-self-defense-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Paine &#8211; Self-Defense Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Go<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1448\" title=\"thomas_paine1\" src=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/thomas_paine1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"141\" \/><em>vernment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Thomas Paine<\/p>\n<p>I chose this quote because today, Feb. 9th, is Thomas Paine&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The above is a good conversation starter for discussing the responsibility of citizens for their own self-defense&#8230;  Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.&#8221; &#8212; Thomas Paine I chose this quote because today, Feb. 9th, is Thomas Paine&#8217;s birthday. The above is a good conversation starter for discussing the responsibility of citizens for their own self-defense&#8230; Thoughts?<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/thomas-paine-self-defense-expert\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[168,173],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-self-defense","tag-politics","tag-it-is-a-zen-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}