{"id":63269,"date":"2017-05-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63269"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:45:04","slug":"there-was-never-a-civil-war-winston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63269","title":{"rendered":"There Was Never A Civil War, Winston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In George Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;1984&#8221;, the &#8220;Ministry of Truth&#8221; had the job of keeping &#8220;what is true&#8221; updated &#8211; by erasing, and un-erasing, the past as &#8220;Ingsoc&#8221;, the party of Big Brother, needed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local\/with-confederate-flags-gone-civil-war-museum-will-close\/ogScTPPdqliC0z4opJ3GTI\/\">always good to see life imitate art, isn&#8217;t it?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In George Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;1984&#8221;, the &#8220;Ministry of Truth&#8221; had the job of keeping &#8220;what is true&#8221; updated &#8211; by erasing, and un-erasing, the past as &#8220;Ingsoc&#8221;, the party of Big Brother, needed. It&#8217;s always good to see life imitate art, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-63269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-1984-is-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63269","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=63269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63270,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63269\/revisions\/63270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}