{"id":17347,"date":"2025-09-11T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17347"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:58:19","slug":"free-speech-and-the-constitution-took-a-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17347","title":{"rendered":"Free speech and the Constitution took a bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/11\/free-speech-and-the-constitution-took-a-bullet\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/11\/free-speech-and-the-constitution-took-a-bullet\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our nation is broken.\u2019 \u2014 Gov. Bryan Cox, Utah Maybe we were too old to fully appreciate Charlie Kirk in his too-short lifetime, but the young man was engaged in free and open debate on the issues of our time where it mattered most: on our blinkered college campuses.\u00a0(His \u201cProve Me Wrong\u201d tour visited UW-Madison [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/11\/free-speech-and-the-constitution-took-a-bullet\/ \u2018Our nation is broken.\u2019 \u2014 Gov. Bryan Cox, Utah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17348,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions\/17348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}