{"id":38343,"date":"2018-08-23T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T23:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38343"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T23:33:38","slug":"freedom-in-the-50-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/freedom-in-the-50-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom in the 50 States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cato has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedominthe50states.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">released its 2018 rankings<\/a> of freedom in the 50 states, compiled by William Ruger and Jason Sorens of the Free State Project.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, these ranks are subjective &#8212; and Cato recognizes that by allowing users to customize their own rankings by what <em>they<\/em> consider important. (Gun rights forever! Down with civil asset forfeiture!)<\/p>\n<p>And rightly so. Just glancing at the map is mindboggling. Wyoming next to and <em>below<\/em> Washington and Minnesota in freedoms? Seems unlikely &#8212; until you start playing around with the factors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-from-2018-08-23-16-21-26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-from-2018-08-23-16-21-26-800x617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-from-2018-08-23-16-21-26-800x617.png 800w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-from-2018-08-23-16-21-26-450x347.png 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-from-2018-08-23-16-21-26-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-from-2018-08-23-16-21-26.png 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite interesting. You could spend hours with the interactive map and customized rankings. Thank you, LarryA for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato has released its 2018 rankings of freedom in the 50 states, compiled by William Ruger and Jason Sorens of the Free State Project. Yep, these ranks are subjective &#8212; and Cato recognizes that by allowing users to customize their own rankings by what they consider important. (Gun rights forever! Down with civil asset forfeiture!) And rightly so. Just glancing at the map is mindboggling. Wyoming next to and below Washington and Minnesota in freedoms? Seems unlikely &#8212; until you start playing around with the factors. Quite interesting. You could spend hours with the interactive map and customized rankings. Thank&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/freedom-in-the-50-states\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freedom in the 50 States<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,23,26,28,30,49,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-practical-freedom","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-stupid-security","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38349,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343\/revisions\/38349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}