{"id":973,"date":"2007-11-05T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T23:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/remember"},"modified":"2007-11-05T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T23:04:54","slug":"remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the movie <em>V for Vendetta, <\/em>the 5th of November plays a vital role:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Remember, remember the Fifth of November,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I know of no reason<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Why Gunpowder Treason<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Should ever be forgot.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the crux of the movie is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is an eloquent way to explain why I decided to donate $100 towards Ron Paul&#8217;s 2008 Presidential campaign today. While I am not afraid of my government in the corporeal sense (yet), I <em>am<\/em> afraid of where my government is headed. Ron Paul is only the only politician in the fray who offers any hope of changing the direction my government is headed more than a few degrees. And I do believe there are icebergs out there, waiting to sink this ship. Not today, probably not tomorrow, not perhaps for a hundred years. But we&#8217;re steaming towards them, and not many in government today care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the movie V for Vendetta, the 5th of November plays a vital role: Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. But the crux of the movie is this: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}