{"id":843,"date":"2020-12-07T15:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:05:27","slug":"pc-review-a-baltic-porter-and-discuss-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/07\/pc-review-a-baltic-porter-and-discuss-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"P&#038;C review a Baltic Porter and discuss freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is freedom, and why should we value it? <\/p>\n<p>The hippies grooved on freedom, but Janis Joplin called it merely &#8220;another word for nothing left to lose.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Casting off restraints can cause very potent, positive emotions. Like the first time you could drive your own car. <\/p>\n<p>But unrestrained freedom is not a good thing. We love freedom, but we put clear limits on it. You can&#8217;t yell fire in a crowded theater, you can&#8217;t commit treason, and you can&#8217;t incite violence. Also, there&#8217;s a tension between freedom and safety, and between freedom and order. We&#8217;re okay with seatbelt laws, for example, and rules in the courthouse. So &#8220;free&#8221; in the context of human society can&#8217;t mean completely unconstrained. <\/p>\n<p>What is it then? What are the limits? And why is it a good thing? <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17093666\/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>What is freedom, and why should we value it? The hippies grooved on freedom, but Janis Joplin called it merely &#8220;another word for nothing left to lose.&#8221; Casting off restraints can cause very potent, positive emotions. Like the first time you could drive your own car. But unrestrained freedom is not a good thing. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/07\/pc-review-a-baltic-porter-and-discuss-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;P&#038;C review a Baltic Porter and discuss freedom&#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-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}