{"id":207,"date":"2020-04-11T02:06:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T02:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2020-04-11T02:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T02:06:17","slug":"private-virtue-and-public-governance-why-does-liberty-depend-on-individual-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/11\/private-virtue-and-public-governance-why-does-liberty-depend-on-individual-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Private virtue and public governance. Why does liberty depend on individual virtue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pigweed and Crowhill record another &#8220;at a distance&#8221; podcast on Skype, maintaining social distance during the coronavirus pandemic. They each review a different beer: Pigweed drinks and review Ex Patriot IPA from Three Weavers, and Crowhill drinks and review Blackbeard&#8217;s Breakfast from Heavy Seas. <\/p>\n<p>This episode was inspired by a speech Ben Shapiro gave at Liberty University. <\/p>\n<p>The founding fathers said that our form of government only works for a virtuous people. Why would that be true? What is it about the American style of government that requires personal virtue? And what virtues are meant? <\/p>\n<p>The boys ponder what &#8220;self governance&#8221; means, and how it fits uniquely into the American system. <\/p>\n<p>The inherent warning is obvious. If people won&#8217;t govern themselves, who will govern them? <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/13943015\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigweed and Crowhill record another &#8220;at a distance&#8221; podcast on Skype, maintaining social distance during the coronavirus pandemic. They each review a different beer: Pigweed drinks and review Ex Patriot IPA from Three Weavers, and Crowhill drinks and review Blackbeard&#8217;s Breakfast from Heavy Seas. This episode was inspired by a speech Ben Shapiro gave at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/11\/private-virtue-and-public-governance-why-does-liberty-depend-on-individual-virtue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Private virtue and public governance. Why does liberty depend on individual virtue?&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}