{"id":182,"date":"2004-08-11T22:42:44","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T06:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fahrenheit-1984\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T22:42:44","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T06:42:44","slug":"fahrenheit-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fahrenheit-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahrenheit 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orwell and Bradbury, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mephron\/349969.html\">here we come<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if this is one of the intended consequences of terrorism, but it definitely could be considered a fringe benefit by someone wishing the breakdown of a (once) free society. The misapplication of security policies by troglodytes is resulting in the kind of climate that Orwell and Bradbury wrote about in their respective masterpieces, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.george-orwell.org\/1984\/\">1984<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raybradbury.com\/books\/fahrenheit451.html\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a>. Am I being a little alarmist? Yes, but I don&#8217;t like the direction this is heading. I sincerely hope that every high school in America has both of these books on their reading lists this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orwell and Bradbury, here we come. I&#8217;m not sure if this is one of the intended consequences of terrorism, but it definitely could be considered a fringe benefit by someone wishing the breakdown of a (once) free society. The misapplication of security policies by troglodytes is resulting in the kind of climate that Orwell and <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fahrenheit-1984\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-2W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}