{"id":353,"date":"2003-10-16T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/16\/"},"modified":"2003-10-16T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T22:49:00","slug":"353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/16\/353\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this in a newsletter from the American Booksellers Association that was in today&#8217;s e-mail. It&#8217;s a long but interesting essay by the author Sarah Paretsky, of the V I Warshawski novels, all about current events and the Patriot Act from her point of view as a writer, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saraparetsky.com\/silence.html\">Truth, Lies and Duct Tape<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a representative quote: <\/p>\n<p><i>At the same time that he is relentlessly pursuing the nation\u2019s readers, the Attorney-General has blocked all efforts to track gun ownership. Perhaps the NRA can adopt a new slogan: guns don\u2019t endanger America, books do.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this in a newsletter from the American Booksellers Association that was in today&#8217;s e-mail. It&#8217;s a long but interesting essay by the author Sarah Paretsky, of the V I Warshawski novels, all about current events and the Patriot Act from her point of view as a writer, called Truth, Lies and Duct &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/16\/353\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}