{"id":44139,"date":"2012-06-07T06:41:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44139"},"modified":"2012-06-07T06:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T14:41:56","slug":"i-dont-want-to-live-in-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44139","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want To Live In Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people won&#8217;t say things publicly for fear of ruffling feathers. They don&#8217;t want to lose relationships, social status, and income.<\/p>\n<p>I frequently get counseled to severely edit or remove blog posts because they might offend powerful people. Most of the time, I think the so-called powerful have more to fear from me than vice-versa. I&#8217;m the writer. My words can be read by the world. I have nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<p>A friend writes: &#8220;he is a person that you do not want to mess with and u have to be so carefull. maybe even redact some of shat you wrote even more.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people won&#8217;t say things publicly for fear of ruffling feathers. They don&#8217;t want to lose relationships, social status, and income. I frequently get counseled to severely edit or remove blog posts because they might offend powerful people. Most of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44140,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44139\/revisions\/44140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}