{"id":36433,"date":"2026-09-30T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=36433"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:36:47","slug":"arr-ee-op-uh-jit-i-kuh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/arr-ee-op-uh-jit-i-kuh\/","title":{"rendered":"ARR + ee + op + uh + JIT + i + kuh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Areopagitica<\/em> is a 1644 prose&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polemic\">pole<\/a>mic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Milton\"> Milton<\/a>&nbsp;opposing the 1643 Licencing Order which had re-introduced&nbsp;censorship&nbsp;of books during the&nbsp;First English Civil War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<em>Areopagitica<\/em>&nbsp;is among history&#8217;s most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications of that right<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that we are on the road to another civil war<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are your thoughts Joe <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About what <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legitimate targets <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are such things as legitimate targets <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you pull the trigger or plant the bomb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not saying that I would not do it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But is unlikely as my pen is far more lethal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Than either a bullet or a bomb <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you man of peace <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like to think I am <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if a mad dog is on the loose <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then one has to be pragmatic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is surprising how fresh Milton&#8217;s words <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seem after all these years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Areopagitica is a 1644 prose&nbsp;polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton&nbsp;opposing the 1643 Licencing Order which had re-introduced&nbsp;censorship&nbsp;of books during the&nbsp;First English Civil War &nbsp;Areopagitica&nbsp;is among history&#8217;s most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression Many of its expressed principles have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36436,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36433\/revisions\/36436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}