{"id":49500,"date":"2023-07-04T21:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T04:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49500"},"modified":"2023-07-04T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T04:41:53","slug":"liberty-and-justice-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/04\/liberty-and-justice-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty and Justice For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1215,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/p\\\/CmSvE_woXvI&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/accounts\\\/login\\\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FCmSvE_woXvI&amp;is_from_rle&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>With everything going on, and particularly with recent SCOTUS decisions and That Fucking Guy still being, yet again, the GOP\u2019s front runner, I see no particular reason to celebrate where we are as a country right now.<\/p>\n<p>But my hopepunk determination to not just wish that things were better, but to continue to fight to <em>make<\/em> them so, goddammit, prevails.<\/p>\n<p>We can be better than this. It\u2019s not easy \u2014 not now, not in the past, and not anytime soon \u2014 but we can keep fighting for ourselves, for each other, and for those who don\u2019t even know we\u2019re fighting for them. (And \u201cfighting\u201d is different for everyone. Pick your battles, and pick battles and methods that work for you.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_0228-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"The US Capitol under a rainbow, under text that says, \u2018I didn\u2019t grow up saying \u2018with liberty and justice for all\u2019 every fucking day to accept anything less.\u2019\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_0228-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_0228-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_0228-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_0228-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_0228.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CmSvE_woXvI\/\">TJDPoetry on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(I\u2019ve been seeing this image go around Facebook, and really like it, but noticed that the image showed signs of degradation, and was uncredited other than the signature in the image. So I went looking to find a better quality image file and to give a credit link back to the artist.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hopepunk determination to not just wish that things were better, but to continue to fight to _make_ them so, goddammit, prevails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[5733],"class_list":["post-49500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-4th-of-july"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}