{"id":811,"date":"2003-11-11T22:18:52","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T22:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/total-itarian\/"},"modified":"2003-11-11T22:18:52","modified_gmt":"2003-11-11T22:18:52","slug":"total-itarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/total-itarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Itarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine living in a society where, one morning, on the radio you hear &#8220;ID cards are to be introduced, voluntarily at first, but the government plan to make them compulsory.&#8221;<br \/>\nIf on the same day you hear the President\/Prime-Minister\/Fuhrer\/Papa say &#8220;Well it&#8217;s your democratic right to protest, we can&#8217;t do anything about that unforunately, but you are quite clearly wrong and everything we&#8217;ve done and are about to do is right and it&#8217;s really got nothing to do with you.&#8221; you&#8217;d probably be justified in thinking that we no longer live in a democracy. You&#8217;d be wrong of course: we have never lived in a democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine living in a society where, one morning, on the radio you hear &#8220;ID cards are to be introduced, voluntarily at first, but the government plan to make them compulsory.&#8221; If on the same day you hear the President\/Prime-Minister\/Fuhrer\/Papa say &#8220;Well it&#8217;s your democratic right to protest, we can&#8217;t do anything about that unforunately, but [&hellip;]<\/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-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}