{"id":190,"date":"2011-06-22T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2011\/06\/22\/free-to-chose-but-you-must-chose\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:25:21","slug":"free-to-chose-but-you-must-chose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2011\/06\/22\/free-to-chose-but-you-must-chose\/","title":{"rendered":"Free to chose but you must chose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ronloney.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/31\/the-road-to-serfdom-by-f-a-hayek-first-published-in-1944\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That people should wish to be relieved of the bitter choice which hard facts often impose upon them is not surprising. But few want to be relieved through having the choice made for them by others. People just wish that the choice should not be necessary at all. And they are only too ready to believe that the choice is not really necessary, that it is imposed upon them merely by the particular economic system under which we live. What they resent is, in truth, that there is an economic problem.<\/p>\n<p>F. A. Hayek. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents\u2013The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) (Kindle Locations 1705-1708). Kindle Edition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That people should wish to be relieved of the bitter choice which hard facts often impose upon them is not surprising. But few want to be relieved through having the choice made for them by others. People just wish that the choice should not be necessary at all. And they are only too ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-group-rights","category-human-nature","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}