{"id":1529,"date":"2008-09-08T23:39:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T03:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:28:58","slug":"aside-phelps-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/aside-phelps-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: Phelps again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule I am entirely in favour of freedom of speech and thought, and I look askance at any government attempts to curtail them. I can go on for quite a while about how hate speech legislation is probably a mistake, especially in a country where the current government wouldn&#8217;t think twice about blasting down that slippery slope, but&#8230; well, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/manitoba\/story\/2008\/08\/08\/westboro-protest.html\">one particular group that I don&#8217;t mind at all being on the shitty end of that stick<\/a>. I&#8217;m a complicated man&#8211;I can live with some shades of grey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">As a general rule I am entirely in favour of freedom of speech and thought, and I look askance at any government attempts to curtail them. I can go on for quite a while about how hate speech legislation is probably a mistake, especially in a country where the current government wouldn&#8217;t think twice about blasting down that slippery slope,&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/aside-phelps-again\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,4],"tags":[112,108,107],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-head-explodes","tag-disgusting","tag-fred-phelps-blows-goats","tag-religion","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-oF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}