{"id":1484,"date":"2022-03-09T22:19:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2022-03-09T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:22:15","slug":"freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Freedom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve heard all throughout the pandemic from states and sectors of society that certain ‘freedoms’ and ‘rights’ were being tread upon. We’ve (sadly) seen -and continue to see- pickup trucks adorned with\u00a0the Gadsden flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”), Trump flags, “Thin Blue Line” flags (which, BTW, go against US Flag Code<\/a>). Further, the ‘in your face<\/em>‘ flag waving of the US Flag itself<\/a> as a cloak to disguise antiquated beliefs (xenophopic, bigoted, intolerant) is just disgusting and frightening.<\/p>\n

But …<\/p>\n

Whether one cares or not regarding peoples’ sexual identity, shouldn’t we be allowing that freedom? If no one should tread on me and my rights, why tread on them? If America is Free for Me or You, why can’t it be Free for Him, Her, Them?<\/p>\n

Read on about Idaho<\/a> and their efforts to ‘punish parents who take trans youth to other states for health care’. Head scratcher here – Idaho has been one of the most ‘don’t tread on me’ states in the west over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n

Why does there continue to be so much hate in the world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve heard all throughout the pandemic from states and sectors of society that certain ‘freedoms’ and ‘rights’ were being tread upon. We’ve (sadly) seen -and continue to see- pickup trucks adorned with\u00a0the Gadsden flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”), Trump flags, “Thin Blue Line” flags (which, BTW, go against US Flag Code). Further, the ‘in your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2toiQ-freedom","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1624,"url":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=1624","url_meta":{"origin":1484,"position":0},"title":"Hotel AC Hack","author":"admin","date":"0909.2828.2323","format":false,"excerpt":"So I've been traveling regularly since forever for work. At least once a week I'm out of town. And I only just thought of this last night. Some hotels have 'governors' on the AC in the room - meaning, you can only go down to a certain temp ... no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "travel"","block_context":{"text":"travel","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?cat=45"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":288,"url":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=288","url_meta":{"origin":1484,"position":1},"title":"Yeah, she blew it.","author":"admin","date":"0202.0606.1111","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? 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This is the best these guys can do with their effigy of Obama? size of head is wrong he's wearing a tie, with a blue-jean jacket pants clash with the flag at least cut him out so it doesn't look like you took the picture out of Time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?cat=36"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efoxley.com\/dope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/obama.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1606,"url":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=1606","url_meta":{"origin":1484,"position":3},"title":"Semi-Empty Nest","author":"admin","date":"0808.1818.2323","format":false,"excerpt":"Dropped Elyce off today at UNM. It\u2019s only 45 minutes down the road, but feels many states away.Kind of prepared myself emotionally a few weeks back (at the time I was dreading the entire time leading up to today) and felt like I was prepared for today. Not too many\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "family"","block_context":{"text":"family","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?cat=81"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1518,"url":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=1518","url_meta":{"origin":1484,"position":4},"title":"Ironic Death","author":"admin","date":"1010.2828.2222","format":false,"excerpt":"I get freedom. I get we shouldn't be beholden to 'The State'. Frankly, I do struggle with laws like seatbelt laws, helmet laws, etcetera. I get that the open road is symbiotic to freedom. And we shouldn't have laws that dictate things that are required for us (not necessarily impacting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "death"","block_context":{"text":"death","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?cat=82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":577,"url":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=577","url_meta":{"origin":1484,"position":5},"title":"Uh Oh","author":"admin","date":"0303.0303.1212","format":false,"excerpt":"So ... we've got 11 months to figure this thing out, apparently.","rel":"","context":"In "space"","block_context":{"text":"space","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?cat=55"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efoxley.com\/dope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/asteroid.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}