{"id":12000,"date":"2023-05-01T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=12000"},"modified":"2023-05-01T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:59:23","slug":"silenced-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=12000","title":{"rendered":"Silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hear-No-Evil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hear-No-Evil-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hear-No-Evil-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hear-No-Evil-1024x854.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hear-No-Evil-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hear-No-Evil.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What we have seen in the last few years is something that has stunned most Americans.  We have always valued free speech, vigorous debate, and peaceful protesting.  All of that has been upended in recent years.  Violent riots that burn down city blocks are called mostly peaceful.  Free speech is called disinformation.  And vigorous debate is called violence.  And God forbid you be caught peacefully protesting something the leftists support in a city controlled by leftists.  You may find yourself in jail for years awaiting trial without bail.  You could be fired from your job.  Be evicted from your home.  Have your bank accounts closed.  They wish to silence dissent.  So all of us can be safe from hearing what they declare evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we have seen in the last few years is something that has stunned most Americans. We have always valued free speech, vigorous debate, and peaceful protesting. All of that has been upended in recent years. Violent riots that burn[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=12000\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12004,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions\/12004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}