{"id":42619,"date":"2022-12-29T08:10:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42619"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:10:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:10:24","slug":"george-orwells-1984-eerily-predicted-what-our-society-would-be-like-today-72-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42619","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell\u2019s 1984 Eerily Predicted What Our Society Would Be Like Today, 72 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-42620\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Control_Was_Not_Difficult-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Control Was Not Difficult\" width=\"882\" height=\"1103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Control_Was_Not_Difficult-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Control_Was_Not_Difficult.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have not read the book, click through to read the article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truththeory.com\/george-orwells-1984-what-it-predicted-72-years\/\">https:\/\/truththeory.com\/george-orwells-1984-what-it-predicted-72-years\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have not read the book, click through to read the article. https:\/\/truththeory.com\/george-orwells-1984-what-it-predicted-72-years\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42619","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=42619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42621,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42619\/revisions\/42621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}