{"id":3388,"date":"2009-12-25T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/why-have-legal-holidays\/"},"modified":"2009-12-25T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T11:56:00","slug":"why-have-legal-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/why-have-legal-holidays.php","title":{"rendered":"Why Have Legal Holidays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can think of two possible justifications.<\/p><p>The first is that society wants to promote particular ideas, values, individuals, or the like; think of the 4th of July or President's Day.&nbsp; I find this defense problematic: the choice of holidays is a vehicle for thought control.<\/p><p>The second justification asserts that legal holidays solve a co-ordination problem by helping people take vacations at the same time as their&nbsp;friends and relatives.&nbsp; This view&nbsp;has some merit, but a countervailing effect is that promoting specific vacation days generates crowding at airports, beaches, and so on.<\/p><p>So I do not see a convincing justification for government holidays,&nbsp;especially not those associated with religion.<\/p><p>Yes, I know I am a Scrooge.&nbsp; My family has been telling me this for years.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2f93e_6379328854053402400-5652055937293622979?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can think of two possible justifications.The first is that society wants to promote particular ideas, values, individuals, or the like; think of the 4th of July or President's Day.&nbsp; I find this defense problematic: the choice of holidays is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/why-have-legal-holidays.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}