{"id":144,"date":"2006-05-06T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/05\/06\/equality\/"},"modified":"2006-05-06T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T18:21:00","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/05\/equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We learnt that equality is about equal worth, not equal outcomes. Today our idea of society is shaped around mutual responsibility; a deal, an agreement between citizens, <b>not a one-way gift, from the well-off to the dependent.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>~Prime Minister Tony Blair, Brighton, October 2, 2001<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to the liberty and to the <b>emancipation of creative differences<\/b>; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>~Barry Goldwater, 1964 <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inequality will exist as long as liberty exists. It unavoidably results from that very liberty itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>~Alexander Hamilton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learnt that equality is about equal worth, not equal outcomes. Today our idea of society is shaped around mutual responsibility; a deal, an agreement between citizens, not a one-way gift, from the well-off to the dependent. ~Prime Minister Tony &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/05\/equality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}