{"id":7495,"date":"2014-07-25T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2014-08-01T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:29:22","slug":"on-reading-a-government-of-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/on-reading-a-government-of-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"On Reading &#8216;A Government of Wolves&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/govt-better.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/govt-better.jpg\" alt=\"govt better\" width=\"523\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/govt-better.jpg 523w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/govt-better-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Close your eyes.<br \/>\nImagine you are George Winston.<br \/>\nIt is 1984.<br \/>\nYou are concerned about Big Brother watching you.<br \/>\nThe technology of control scares you.<br \/>\nThe clock is striking thirteen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now open your eyes.<br \/>\nYou are Sitty Sin.<br \/>\nIt is 2014.<br \/>\nYou are concerned about Big Uncle controlling you.<br \/>\nThe technology of control is real and pervasive.<br \/>\nThe clock is striking thirty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read the papers.<br \/>\nBig Government is good.<br \/>\nWatch the news.<br \/>\nBig Government gives you stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tweet and blog to ecstasy.<br \/>\nGame to reality.<br \/>\nIpod instantaneously.<br \/>\nTo infinity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now turn it off.<br \/>\nTurn it all off.<br \/>\nWhat is really real?<br \/>\nWhat is missing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is political correctness correct?<br \/>\nDo the power elite dictate?<br \/>\nDoes political party even matter?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now close your eyes.<br \/>\nImagine you are George Winston.<br \/>\nIt is 2024.<br \/>\nWhat has happened?<br \/>\nAre you happy?<br \/>\nAre you free?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And how do you <span style=\"color: #333333;\">pray?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Charles Andrew Wood is a retired Air Force officer, an educator, writer, and photographer.\u00a0 He has an MA in communication and in public administration, and is completing a doctorate in theology.\u00a0 He lives with his family in Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close your eyes.<br \/>\nImagine you are George Winston.<br \/>\nIt is 1984.<br \/>\nYou are concerned about Big Brother watching you.<br \/>\nThe technology of control scares you.<br \/>\nThe clock is striking thirteen.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":7561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,214,223,219,199,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}