{"id":3100,"date":"2018-10-31T23:15:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T03:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2018-10-31T23:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T03:15:38","slug":"freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2018\/10\/31\/freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a communist country where we have, perhaps mistakenly, thought that the difference between communist dictatorships and the western democracies was that in a free and democratic society &#8220;freedom of speech&#8221; meant that you still had your freedom after you have delivered the speech.<\/p>\n<p>The sad thing is that people seem to be giving up this fundamental right willingly after their ancestors have fought revolutions and wars to have it.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_speech\" title=\"Freedom of speech\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom of speech<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/universal-declaration-human-rights\/\" title=\"Universal Declaration of Human Rights\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a><br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a communist country where we have, perhaps mistakenly, thought that the difference between communist dictatorships and the western democracies was that in a free and democratic society &#8220;freedom of speech&#8221; meant that you still had your &hellip; <a href=\"\/2018\/10\/31\/freedom-of-speech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}