{"id":151,"date":"2004-06-27T17:21:37","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T21:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=151"},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:53:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T22:53:27","slug":"caesar-takes-what-caesar-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/06\/27\/caesar-takes-what-caesar-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesar takes what Caesar wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civil-liberties.com\/pages\/memoirs.htm\">Memoirs of a Tax Protester<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memoirs of a Tax Protester: If only I had known this before I started paying taxes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[385],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","post_format-post-format-link","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-2r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":275,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/07\/memoirs-of-an-evil-genius\/","url_meta":{"origin":151,"position":0},"title":"Memoirs of an Evil Genius","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Read this hilarious game review, done by Scott Sharkey. 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