{"id":308,"date":"2020-06-08T23:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T23:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2020-06-08T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T23:13:18","slug":"were-heading-in-a-very-ugly-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/08\/were-heading-in-a-very-ugly-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re heading in a very ugly direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/french-revolution.jpg\" alt=\"French Revolution\" width=\"325\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/french-revolution.jpg 325w, https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/french-revolution-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 85vw, 325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Silence = murder.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I saw a sign with that slogan in my town. I&#8217;ve seen many more pictures with similar slogans. <\/p>\n<p>So you must speak!! <\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;incorrect&#8221; speech will get you banned, shunned, fired, and you&#8217;ll probably get death threats. <\/p>\n<p>This adds up to a simple paradigm: you must agree with the fashionable interpretation of the facts, or your life is over. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know enough about the French Revolution to say if the tweet is correct, but it certainly resonates. I can easily see how we&#8217;d get to such a point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Silence = murder.&#8221; I saw a sign with that slogan in my town. I&#8217;ve seen many more pictures with similar slogans. So you must speak!! But &#8220;incorrect&#8221; speech will get you banned, shunned, fired, and you&#8217;ll probably get death threats. This adds up to a simple paradigm: you must agree with the fashionable interpretation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/08\/were-heading-in-a-very-ugly-direction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#8217;re heading in a very ugly direction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}