{"id":10874,"date":"2016-01-18T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/such-despots-know-very-well-that-their-strategy-of\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T22:49:07","slug":"such-despots-know-very-well-that-their-strategy-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/such-despots-know-very-well-that-their-strategy-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple:<\/p>\n<p>1. Select a useful enemy\u2014an \u201cOther\u201d\u2014to convert rage into conflict, even war.<\/p>\n<p>2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear\/\">No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear | The Nation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple: 1. Select a useful enemy\u2014an \u201cOther\u201d\u2014to convert rage into conflict, even war. 2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Po","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}