{"id":12749,"date":"2010-08-18T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12749"},"modified":"2010-08-18T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:41:20","slug":"a-hypothetical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12749","title":{"rendered":"A Hypothetical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if a group calling itself &#8220;Free Press&#8221; threw a public meeting to evangelize the idea of nationalizing the internet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and it turned out that the leadership of the group &#8220;Free Press&#8221; was on record favoring the complete squelching of economic and personal freedom?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgpalmer.com\/2005\/08\/16\/homos-more-dangerous-than-soviet-communism\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgpalmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy-images\/Soviet%20Prisoners%20on%20the%20way%20to%20the%20Gulag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;d be&#8230;ironic, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>As PJ O&#8217;Rourke said, life is full of ironies, if you&#8217;re stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morning in <em>Shot In The Dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if a group calling itself &#8220;Free Press&#8221; threw a public meeting to evangelize the idea of nationalizing the internet&#8230; &#8230;and it turned out that the leadership of the group &#8220;Free Press&#8221; was on record favoring the complete squelching of economic and personal freedom? That&#8217;d be&#8230;ironic, wouldn&#8217;t it? As PJ O&#8217;Rourke said, life is full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12751,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749\/revisions\/12751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}