{"id":14173,"date":"2013-06-09T15:11:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14173"},"modified":"2013-06-09T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:11:13","slug":"edward-snowden-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/09\/edward-snowden-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden, hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He has had &#8220;a very comfortable life&#8221; that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves. &#8220;I&#8217;m willing to sacrifice all of that because I can&#8217;t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they&#8217;re secretly building.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Twenty-nine. Prosperous. Successful. Living in paradise. And <a href=\"http:\/\/m.guardiannews.com\/world\/2013\/jun\/09\/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">willing to risk it all for freedom<\/a>. Willing to risk it all for an act that (dare I use the term?) is intensely <i>patriotic<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Edward Snowden. Thank you a million times over.<\/p>\n<p><i>Great<\/i> article at that link, too.<\/p>\n<p>(Tip o&#8217; hat to David T in comments.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has had &#8220;a very comfortable life&#8221; that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves. &#8220;I&#8217;m willing to sacrifice all of that because I can&#8217;t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they&#8217;re secretly building.&#8221; Twenty-nine. Prosperous. Successful. Living in paradise. And willing to risk it all for freedom. Willing to risk it all for an act that (dare I use the term?) is intensely&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/09\/edward-snowden-hero\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edward Snowden, hero<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-and-spirit","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}