{"id":2911,"date":"2008-07-21T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2008-07-21T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T15:55:12","slug":"i-gazed-upon-the-chimes-of-freedom-flashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2911","title":{"rendered":"I Gazed Upon The Chimes Of Freedom Flashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard set upon by an oppressive tyranny, the people dutifully pulled their burdens.\u00a0 At times, it seemed there was no hope; the overlords would work you to death and their pleasure, living off the fruit of our labors and the sweat of our brow, as it pleased them.<\/p>\n<p>There were occasional whispers &#8211; kept silent, for fear of retribution from the overlords &#8211; of a liberator.\u00a0 But most of the people kept it firmly in the realm of legend &#8211; as much for their own protection as out of lack of faith.\u00a0 Some of the people even acquiesced with their oppressors; &#8220;truely, it&#8217;s better to go along than to resist&#8221;, they said, weary of the battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But then, one day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;in the middle of yet another dark, dismal year in the dank, oppressed land&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/25671729.html?location_refer=Homepage:highlightModules:1\">first glimmer of sanity broke over the rancid murk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And a few of The People began to whisper under their breath.\u00a0 Soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard set upon by an oppressive tyranny, the people dutifully pulled their burdens.\u00a0 At times, it seemed there was no hope; the overlords would work you to death and their pleasure, living off the fruit of our labors and the sweat of our brow, as it pleased them. There were occasional whispers &#8211; kept silent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-republicans","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","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=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}