{"id":38716,"date":"2022-05-06T05:18:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T19:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38716"},"modified":"2022-05-06T05:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T19:18:16","slug":"propaganda-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38716","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-38717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Propaganda_Purpose-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Propaganda Purpose\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Propaganda_Purpose-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Propaganda_Purpose-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Propaganda_Purpose-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Propaganda_Purpose-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Propaganda_Purpose.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So whenever a news item, article, meme, picture or conversation tempts to or leaves you feeling less rather than more affinity for a group of people, recognize that it will also result in you being less in communication with that group, less able to influence them in a positive direction.<\/p>\n<p>It has reduced your cause level.<\/p>\n<p>And who most wants to reduce your cause level?<\/p>\n<p>Those who most want to control you.<\/p>\n<p>Those who would restrict your freedoms wish you no good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So whenever a news item, article, meme, picture or conversation tempts to or leaves you feeling less rather than more affinity for a group of people, recognize that it will also result in you being less in communication with that group, less able to influence them in a positive direction. It has reduced your cause &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Propaganda Purpose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38718,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38716\/revisions\/38718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}