{"id":283,"date":"2010-10-22T13:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2012-02-18T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T00:13:54","slug":"fear-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/22\/fear-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear &#038; Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fear and <em>authoritarianism\u00a0<\/em>are the two foundations of conservatism, but mostly just fear because authoritarianism is felt as necessary for those in fear.<\/p>\n<div>It takes a lot of love and courage to look at and speak to the fears that are within us all. I have always done that by first confronting within myself the beliefs that are the foundation of these fears until I had overcome them and then confronting the beliefs in others that they have not examined themselves. I wonder if there is a better way to address this challenge.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear and authoritarianism\u00a0are the two foundations of conservatism, but mostly just fear because authoritarianism is felt as necessary for those in fear. It takes a lot of love and courage to look at and speak to the fears that are within us all. I have always done that by first confronting within myself the beliefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal","category-lovefear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}