{"id":8022,"date":"2011-11-29T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T22:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2011-11-29T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T22:42:20","slug":"south-africa-sends-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/south-africa-sends-a-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa sends a warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>wrm, a reader from South Africa, mentioned in recent comments a draconian secrecy bill SA&#8217;s government is contemplating and a <a href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/zapiro\/\" target=\"_blank\">cartoonist called Zapiro<\/a> who creates good, pointed cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>I thought these two &#8216;toons, which appeared on successive days, fit our situation as well as SA&#8217;s (especially in light of recent bill introductions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/11\/29\/the-evil-that-they-do\/\">blogged earlier today<\/a>). Substitute the word &#8220;freedom&#8221; for Zapiro&#8217;s &#8220;democracy&#8221; and you&#8217;ve got it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/11\/29\/south-africa-sends-a-warning\/zapiro-01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/zapiro-01-450x307.gif\" alt=\"Cartoon showing government person painting the cartoon frame black\" title=\"zapiro-01\" width=\"450\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8023\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/11\/29\/south-africa-sends-a-warning\/zapiro-02\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/zapiro-02-450x309.gif\" alt=\"&quot;Missed a spot&quot; -- government figure comes back and obliterates the cartoonist&#039;s signature\" title=\"zapiro-02\" width=\"450\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wrm, a reader from South Africa, mentioned in recent comments a draconian secrecy bill SA&#8217;s government is contemplating and a cartoonist called Zapiro who creates good, pointed cartoons. I thought these two &#8216;toons, which appeared on successive days, fit our situation as well as SA&#8217;s (especially in light of recent bill introductions blogged earlier today). Substitute the word &#8220;freedom&#8221; for Zapiro&#8217;s &#8220;democracy&#8221; and you&#8217;ve got it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humor","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","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=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}