{"id":49793,"date":"2015-03-09T23:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T05:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/knowledge-is-power.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:25:30","slug":"knowledge-is-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/knowledge-is-power.html","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Is Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the risk of embarrassing +<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>, I thought her freshman essay (by way of website) on knowledge, freedom, and tyranny, by way of Little Brother<\/i> and 1984,<\/i> was pretty darned cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At the risk of embarrassing +Kay Hill, I thought her freshman essay (by way of website) on knowledge, freedom, and tyranny, by way of Little Brother and 1984, was pretty darned cool. knowledge-is-power View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,17,23,132,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-homeland-security","category-parenting","category-privacy","category-school-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17403,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/because-knowledge-is-power.html","url_meta":{"origin":49793,"position":0},"title":"Because Knowledge is Power!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-May-10 10:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Created by Oatmeal","rel":"","context":"In "Health"","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128238,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/in-fighting-gun-violence-knowledge-is-power.html","url_meta":{"origin":49793,"position":1},"title":"In fighting gun violence, knowledge is power","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Oct-15 12:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is one reason why the gun lobby is so keen to keep knowledge about gun deaths and injuries to a minimum, let alone addressing gun violence as a public health issue (besides vague handwaving about \"the crazies\").The article's \"new way\" isn't all that new, but it's useful. 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