{"id":233,"date":"2020-04-25T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2020-04-25T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T13:36:04","slug":"executive-orders-and-coronavirus-whats-the-limiting-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/25\/executive-orders-and-coronavirus-whats-the-limiting-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive orders and coronavirus. What&#8217;s the limiting principle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do this, don&#8217;t do that, can&#8217;t you read the sign!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Five Man Electric Band didn&#8217;t like being told what to do and not to do. And while those weird hippie folk might have gone a bit far, it&#8217;s very American to resist orders from the government. <\/p>\n<p>However, in the last 30 years or so, we&#8217;ve seen more and more executive orders, and now they&#8217;re flying fast and furious. Wear a mask. Don&#8217;t by seeds for your garden. Don&#8217;t take your kids to the park. Don&#8217;t go for a private run on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>How are we going to restrain this? <\/p>\n<p>There are crisis situations where we need the public to act a certain way. But does that have to be an order? Can&#8217;t we appeal to people and ask them to act responsibly? <\/p>\n<p>Also, it seems un-American to give one person power without giving someone else the power to hold them in check. We seem to have missed that part. <\/p>\n<p>Pigweed and Crowhill discuss. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14140820\/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>&#8220;Do this, don&#8217;t do that, can&#8217;t you read the sign!&#8221; The Five Man Electric Band didn&#8217;t like being told what to do and not to do. And while those weird hippie folk might have gone a bit far, it&#8217;s very American to resist orders from the government. However, in the last 30 years or so, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/25\/executive-orders-and-coronavirus-whats-the-limiting-principle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Executive orders and coronavirus. What&#8217;s the limiting principle?&#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-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}