{"id":17737,"date":"2024-03-31T19:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T19:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17737"},"modified":"2024-03-31T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T19:24:54","slug":"quote-as-a-45-year-old-taxpayer-i-object-to-this-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/17737","title":{"rendered":"Quote : As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#8220;As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution.\u00a0 I am glad my son enjoys the camaraderie and happiness that is the predominant experience at a rave.\u00a0 I am proud that he is intelligently experienced in the use of drugs, although I am horrified that this makes him a criminal.\u00a0 By taking away the freedom of one group, the freedom of us all is lost.\u00a0 I need my right to silence, my son needs his right to dance in groups of more than 10 people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All of us need the right to opt out of conventional lifestyles&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guardian Reader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution.\u00a0 I am glad my son enjoys the camaraderie and happiness that is the predominant experience at a rave.\u00a0 I am proud that he is intelligently experienced in the use of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/17737\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[435,333,358],"class_list":["post-17737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-guardian","tag-quote","tag-rave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17738,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17737\/revisions\/17738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}