{"id":2321,"date":"2009-07-01T23:52:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2009-07-01T23:55:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:55:54","slug":"if-they-shoot-you-in-the-street-by-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2321","title":{"rendered":"If they shoot you in the street by day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can praise God at night in the dark from your rooftop. Tehran at night.<\/p>\n<\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eWEQ8tMewmI&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object\nA few years after the Iranian Revolution Salman Rushdie wrote the book that led to the Ayatolahs of Iran issuing a death sentence on him. Any Moslem was given permission to hunt him down and kill him anywhere they could find him. He spent the next decade in hiding.\n\nI was so incensed I wrote a letter to the student governments of the 100 largest colleges and universities in the US urging them to pass resolutions condemning this threat to freedom of speech. No one ever wrote back.\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can praise God at night in the dark from your rooftop. Tehran at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}