{"id":99323,"date":"2025-09-28T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99323"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:50:31","slug":"99323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99323","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all \u2014 security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. <\/em><br \/>\n\u2014 Edward Gibbon [On ancient Athens]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all \u2014 security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99324,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99323\/revisions\/99324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}