{"id":3766,"date":"2021-03-19T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2021-04-09T23:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T23:14:41","slug":"as-a-45-year-old-taxpayer-i-object-to-this-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/3766","title":{"rendered":"As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution.&nbsp; I am glad my son enjoys the camaraderie and happiness that is the predominant experience at a rave.&nbsp; I am proud that he is intelligently experienced in the use of drugs, although I am horrified that this makes him a criminal.&nbsp; By taking away the freedom of one group, the freedom of us all is lost.&nbsp; I need my right to silence, my son needs his right to dance in groups of more than 10 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of us need the right to opt out of conventional lifestyles&#8221;<\/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.&nbsp; I am glad my son enjoys the camaraderie and happiness that is the predominant experience at a rave.&nbsp; I am proud that he is intelligently experienced in the use of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/3766\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,60,58,57,333,59,56],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-45-year","tag-object","tag-old","tag-persecution","tag-quote","tag-taxpayer","tag-this"],"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\/3766","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=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4140,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/4140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}