{"id":143435,"date":"2022-07-01T07:39:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=143435"},"modified":"2022-07-01T07:39:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:39:12","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-frederic-bastiat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=143435","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Frederic Bastiat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?\u201d ~ Claude-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, 30 June 1801 \u2013 24 December 1850<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31780 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lakesidenews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220px-Bastiat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220px-Bastiat-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143437,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143435\/revisions\/143437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}