{"id":511,"date":"2003-03-23T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2003-03-23T10:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/03\/23\/freeping.html"},"modified":"2003-03-23T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2003-03-23T10:27:17","slug":"freeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/03\/23\/freeping.html","title":{"rendered":"freeping&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\">The Free Republic<\/a> community proved the power of action when they <a href=\"http:\/\/enquirer.com\/editions\/2003\/03\/18\/tem_tvpix18.html\">freeped the Dixie Chicks<\/a> after they said a very benign comment about being embarassed.  Radio stations pulled their songs thinking that thousands of people were outraged.  But those thousands of people were from a very small community who magnifies their voice to sound like they represent everyone.  And they make waves.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking.. the left doesn&#8217;t really have an equivalent.  I always feel guilty calling some place twice because i want to share my one vote, one voice.  It&#8217;s weird because i guess we could blast those who are so vigilently pro-war, but it just seems so strange.  Thus, things don&#8217;t get heard.  Like, i was *stunned* today when i found out that most of the east coast media did not even cover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miftah.org\/Display.cfm?DocId=1866&#038;CategoryId=23\">Rachel Corrie&#8217;s death<\/a> (or blamed her for being a radical freak).  I really want to secede.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Free Republic community proved the power of action when they freeped the Dixie Chicks after they said a very benign comment about being embarassed. Radio stations pulled their songs thinking that thousands of people were outraged. But those thousands of people were from a very small community who magnifies their voice to sound like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}