{"id":14201,"date":"2013-06-12T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14201"},"modified":"2013-06-12T09:24:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:24:55","slug":"seeking-asylum-from-the-u-s-fedgov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/seeking-asylum-from-the-u-s-fedgov\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking asylum from the U.S. fedgov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you were wondering &#8212; you know, for future use and all &#8212; at least two publications have recently weighed in on the best places to seek asylum from the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/best-places-to-seek-asylum-from-us-2013-6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Business Insider<\/i><\/a> has a list. But then, they would. They&#8217;re a bit (a bit!) sensationalistic and love to come up with pictorial twists on things in the news.<\/p>\n<p>Really surprised me, though when the staid old <i>National Geographic<\/i>  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2013\/06\/130611-edward-snowden-asylum-nsa-leaks-whisteblower-assange-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">came up with such a list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some crossover, some differences, in their choices.<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever think you&#8217;d see the day when seeking asylum or &#8220;defecting&#8221; from the United States would be mainstream talk? Sure, they&#8217;re just writing about one whistleblower &#8212; for now. But clearly, from the small but growing number of tax refugees and political dissidents leaving the country, we&#8217;re going to be hearing a lot more of this in the future. Even from the usually clueless MSM. Yup. We live in interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you were wondering &#8212; you know, for future use and all &#8212; at least two publications have recently weighed in on the best places to seek asylum from the U.S. government. Business Insider has a list. But then, they would. They&#8217;re a bit (a bit!) sensationalistic and love to come up with pictorial twists on things in the news. Really surprised me, though when the staid old National Geographic came up with such a list. Some crossover, some differences, in their choices. Did you ever think you&#8217;d see the day when seeking asylum or &#8220;defecting&#8221; from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/seeking-asylum-from-the-u-s-fedgov\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seeking asylum from the U.S. fedgov<\/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":[9,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-offshore","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201","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=14201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}