{"id":228,"date":"2004-08-17T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T14:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=228"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"mutineer_in_bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/mutineer_in_bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutineer in Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I generally avoid posting overtly political stuff  here BUT, I figured at least a few of y&#8217;all might be interested in my other blog persona &#8211; <a href=http:\/\/theironblog.blogspot.com>The IronBlogger Libertarian.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m currently debating <a href=http:\/\/theironblog.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/twelfth-battle.html>&#8220;The Purpose of Arms&#8221;<\/a> against a challenger and my <a href=http:\/\/vinod.com\/blog\/News\/IronBlogger-GunsViolence.html>opening statement is up<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The ultimate goal of arms is for the individual to defend himself, his rights, and his property against other individuals through the credible threat of mortal force. This is a very complex topic so I&#8217;ll expend some effort here to crisply articulate a small number of core points and avoid the statistical barrage that characterizes so many gun debates.\n<p>\n<b>1. Violence is an intrinsic part of human nature&#8230;<\/b><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Check it out if you&#8217;re interested in this sort of stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally avoid posting overtly political stuff here BUT, I figured at least a few of y&#8217;all might be interested in my other blog persona &#8211; The IronBlogger Libertarian. I&#8217;m currently debating &#8220;The Purpose of Arms&#8221; against a challenger and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/mutineer_in_bat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}