{"id":22220,"date":"2021-01-28T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=fe080e8f20fd9f2eab44b3746f66fc7f"},"modified":"2021-01-28T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:12:24","slug":"ep-397-my-conversation-with-michael-thompson-after-he-was-freed-from-prison-today-after-25-years-in-prison-for-selling-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/28\/ep-397-my-conversation-with-michael-thompson-after-he-was-freed-from-prison-today-after-25-years-in-prison-for-selling-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 397 &#8211; My conversation with Michael Thompson after he was freed from prison today after 25 years in prison for selling weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Michael Thompson spent 25 hard years in prison for selling weed to a friend. It's unthinkable and is one of the worst acts on injustice I've ever seen in modern American history. While he was incarcerated, his parents died, his only son died, and he lost almost his entire adult life. Today, after 25 years, he was released - and we had to fight like hell to make that happen. Today Michael and I spoke for the first time with him as a free man.<br><br>If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thebreakdown\">www.patreon.com\/thebreakdown<\/a> for exclusive members perks and early access to content.<\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7784721\">The Breakdown with Shaun King<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Thompson spent 25 hard years in prison for selling weed to a friend. It&#8217;s unthinkable and is one of the worst acts on injustice I&#8217;ve ever seen in modern American history. While he was incarcerated, his parents died, his only son died, and he lost almost his entire adult life. Today, after 25 years, he was released &#8211; and we had to fight like hell to make that happen. Today Michael and I spoke for the first time with him as a free man.<\/p>\n<p>If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978381,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220\/revisions\/978381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}