{"id":554,"date":"2005-06-24T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=554"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:35:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:35:52","slug":"ignorant-citzenry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/24\/ignorant-citzenry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorant Citzenry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypundit.com\/newarchives\/002506.php#002506\">Daily Pundit &#8211; An ignorant citizenry is an unarmed citizenry &#8211; or soon will be<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHow can you have a representative republic, when close to half the citizens have no thoughts, opinions, beliefs, or understandings to represent?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sad, but true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you have a representative republic, when close to half the citizens have no thoughts, opinions, beliefs, or understandings to represent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":186,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/07\/10\/propaganda\/","url_meta":{"origin":554,"position":0},"title":"Propaganda","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 10, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I saw Fahrenheit 9\/11 today. 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