{"id":5165,"date":"2016-07-04T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2016-07-04T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T00:30:53","slug":"silent-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5165","title":{"rendered":"THE &#8220;SILENT COUP&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Atcheson at CommonDreams <a href=\"http:\/\/commondreams.org\/views\/2016\/07\/04\/put-away-fireworks-you-dont-live-democracy-anymore\">describes<\/a> America&#8217;s tragic decline into oligarchy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even as we spend tens of trillions on &#8216;Defense,&#8217; ostensibly to protect our freedom, we quietly relinquished it; not to an invasion from without, but to a silent coup by the rich and powerful from within.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Atcheson at CommonDreams describes America&#8217;s tragic decline into oligarchy. &#8220;Even as we spend tens of trillions on &#8216;Defense,&#8217; ostensibly to protect our freedom, we quietly relinquished it; not to an invasion from without, but to a silent coup by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}