{"id":6677,"date":"2013-03-02T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2024-07-06T04:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:28:38","slug":"just-following-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6677","title":{"rendered":"Just Following Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JustFollowingOrders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6678\" title=\"Just Following Orders\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JustFollowingOrders-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Just Following Orders\" width=\"748\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JustFollowingOrders-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JustFollowingOrders.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSadly, most people will follow orders &#8211; all the way to digging their own graves and standing beside them, waiting to be shot.<br \/>\nWhereas if each victim was courageous enough to take out only one oppressor with him, the oppression would last far less and far fewer innocents would be slaughtered.<br \/>\nBut that response from the oppressed requires the high confront of evil, independent thought, intelligent assessment of the circumstances, devising of a workable plan, effective action and execution. Those are not skills the establishment focuses on building when they create an education system to churn out robotic slaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, most people will follow orders &#8211; all the way to digging their own graves and standing beside them, waiting to be shot. Whereas if each victim was courageous enough to take out only one oppressor with him, the oppression would last far less and far fewer innocents would be slaughtered. But that response from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just Following Orders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","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=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54915,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/54915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}