{"id":43927,"date":"2023-03-19T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43927"},"modified":"2023-03-19T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:18:25","slug":"most-people-would-not-recognise-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43927","title":{"rendered":"Most people would not recognise tyranny&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Changizi posted on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>Most people wouldn\u2019t recognize the arrival of tyranny even if it<\/p>\n<p>1\/ banned church services<\/p>\n<p>2\/ shut down their business<\/p>\n<p>3\/ forced them to stay home<\/p>\n<p>4\/ stopped schooling their kids<\/p>\n<p>5\/ lost them their job cuz \u201cinessential\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6\/ kept sick family from seeing their loved ones<\/p>\n<p>7\/ prevented their doctors from making their own medical decisions<\/p>\n<p>8\/ demanded they cover their identity and ability to express themselves in public<\/p>\n<p>9\/ coordinated which speech and viewpoints would be allowed in the public square<\/p>\n<p>10\/ jabbed them in the arm with a rushed medication, and refusal to submit meant being fired and banished<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Changizi posted on Twitter: Most people wouldn\u2019t recognize the arrival of tyranny even if it 1\/ banned church services 2\/ shut down their business 3\/ forced them to stay home 4\/ stopped schooling their kids 5\/ lost them their job cuz \u201cinessential\u201d 6\/ kept sick family from seeing their loved ones 7\/ prevented their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Most people would not recognise tyranny&#8230;&#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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43927","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=43927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43928,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43927\/revisions\/43928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}