{"id":7140,"date":"2019-11-20T07:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2019-11-20T07:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:38:58","slug":"freedom-to-speak-out-a-root-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7140","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to Speak Out\u2013A Root of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/SpeakOut_IMG_4148.jpg\" alt=\"Speak Out Postage Stamp\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">1977<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Constitution of United States of America<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Amendment I<\/p>\n<p>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting<br \/>\nthe free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the<br \/>\nright of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a<br \/>\nredress of grievances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about-the-white-house\/the-constitution\/\" >US Constitution, The White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/constitution-transcript\" >The U.S. National Archives<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1977 Constitution of United States of America Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freedom to Speak Out\u2013A Root of Democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,45,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-history","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7141,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}