{"id":2852,"date":"2019-03-21T01:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2019-03-02T09:12:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T14:12:28","slug":"of-course-there-is-a-lot-of-grumbling-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/03\/of-course-there-is-a-lot-of-grumbling-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course There is a Lot of Grumbling (in America)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A reminder of some basics about life in America.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have freedom of speech in America. Anyone can publish a newspaper or a blog or a \u2026 well, how long is the list?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a free country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want peace and quiet and tranquility? Want unanimous public opinion without fake news and hate speech? Go to \u2026 it is difficult to make the list without forgetting someone, but let\u2019s start: China, Cuba, North Korea.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Of course I&#8217;m not advocating removal of free speech and such&#8230;&#8221; Good. Don&#8217;t say another word. Well, of course you can say more, but think. If we regulate speech, we have to decide who &#8220;we&#8221; and &#8220;they&#8221; are and we may not like who &#8220;we&#8221; choose to label as &#8220;they.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips A reminder of some basics about life in America. We have freedom of speech in America. Anyone can publish a newspaper or a blog or a \u2026 well, how long is the list? This is a free country. Want peace and quiet and tranquility? Want unanimous public opinion without fake news and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,304,43],"tags":[234,305,165],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-censorship","category-ideas","tag-america","tag-censorship","tag-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}