{"id":704,"date":"2006-01-28T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T22:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=704"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:23:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:23:29","slug":"why-we-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/01\/28\/why-we-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/aim\/\">Why We Fight &#8211; An Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very well-written piece, and one that I would tend to agree with. I highly recommend reading it (it&#8217;s pretty short and to-the-point).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very well-written piece, and one that I would tend to agree with. I highly recommend reading it (it&#8217;s pretty short and to-the-point).<\/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-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":754,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/07\/04\/happy-independence-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":704,"position":0},"title":"Happy Independence Day!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's the 4th of July again. 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Which, by the way, I highly recommend reading the whole thing (including the Constitution itself).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2800,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/09\/08\/treating-our-legal-code-like-computer-code\/","url_meta":{"origin":704,"position":1},"title":"Treating our Legal Code like Computer Code","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking at some pending legislation through the eyes of a computer programmer... and finding it... wanting.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Opinion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":752,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/06\/23\/why-i-love-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":704,"position":2},"title":"Why I Love Australia","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: \"I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.\" For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. 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