{"id":3755,"date":"2019-05-27T13:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/the-facebook-offload\/"},"modified":"2019-05-27T13:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:54:50","slug":"the-facebook-offload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/the-facebook-offload\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facebook Offload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I have offloaded a good deal of my political linkage, &#39;rantage,&#39; and commentary onto my FB page. But given the state of the Republic, it is important to punch back against the destructive Left in every venue and from every platform. So I will continue to post political material here.&#0160; You may try to avoid the political, but don&#39;t expect it to reciprocate.&#0160; You may seek to evade the totalitarians and retreat into your private life, but it is the nature of&#0160; totalitarians to seek total control.&#0160; Retreat into your private life, and you&#0160; may wake up one day to find that there is no private life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Free speech! Use it or lose it. But the Constitution that protects our rights is just paper without a certain backup element:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4ae7a9c200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pb\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4ae7a9c200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4ae7a9c200b-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Pb\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have offloaded a good deal of my political linkage, &#39;rantage,&#39; and commentary onto my FB page. But given the state of the Republic, it is important to punch back against the destructive Left in every venue and from every platform. So I will continue to post political material here.&#0160; You may try to avoid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/the-facebook-offload\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Facebook Offload&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polemics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}