{"id":20874,"date":"2026-03-23T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20874"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:03:24","slug":"who-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20874","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"411\" data-attachment-id=\"20875\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=20875\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1502&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1502\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1648493053&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;1.54&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0055555555555556&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3659\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?fit=700%2C411&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659.jpeg?resize=700%2C411&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C601&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?resize=150%2C88&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C451&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C901&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1202&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cTo be free, one needs to be feared.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 2, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macron was talking about the need for the EU to keep its nuclear weapons. But there might be truth in this in many areas. And of course what does &#8220;free&#8221; mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another sunset from our patio. Life is Good. I don&#8217;t know how I could be any freer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo be free, one needs to be feared.\u201d Emmanuel Macron March 2, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[1565,61,311,262],"class_list":["post-20874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-politics","tag-macron","tag-maxim","tag-politics","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1502&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5qG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20876,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions\/20876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}