{"id":34346,"date":"2022-03-02T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=34346"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:53:02","slug":"freedom-of-expression-a-core-democratic-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/freedom-of-expression-a-core-democratic-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Expression: A core Democratic Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34347\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/freedom-of-expression-a-core-democratic-value\/_freedom_of_speech__-_nara_-_513536\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?fit=2029%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2029,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"_Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?fit=238%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?fit=604%2C762&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536.jpg?resize=604%2C762&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"762\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?resize=650%2C820&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?resize=238%2C300&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C631&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C969&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?resize=1218%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?resize=1623%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1623w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?w=2029&amp;ssl=1 2029w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536-scaled.jpg?w=1812&amp;ssl=1 1812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of President Roosevelt&#8217;s &#8220;Four Freedoms&#8221; was embodied in this painting by Norman Rockwell.<\/p>\n<p>This is a man standing up at a public town hall style meeting and speaking his mind.<\/p>\n<p>He is not screaming at a school board demanding that excellent books be kept away from our school children, and prohibited for use by our educators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of President Roosevelt&#8217;s &#8220;Four Freedoms&#8221; was embodied in this painting by Norman Rockwell. This is a man standing up at a public town hall style meeting and speaking his mind. He is not screaming at a school board demanding that excellent books be kept away from our school children, and prohibited for use by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/freedom-of-expression-a-core-democratic-value\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freedom of Expression: A core Democratic Value<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6205,5040,5026],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LibertyBell.png?fit=497%2C549&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8VY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34349,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34346\/revisions\/34349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}