{"id":281625,"date":"2021-08-20T08:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=212034"},"modified":"2021-08-20T08:51:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:51:58","slug":"ambrose-bierces-pro-freedom-cynicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/20\/ambrose-bierces-pro-freedom-cynicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambrose Bierce\u2019s Pro-Freedom Cynicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the U.S.-backed regime in Afghanistan is a fine time to dip into one of America\u2019s most penetrating and underappreciated political analysts \u2013 Ambrose Bierce. The political establishment and its media allies are continually abusing the English language to lull people into submission. From pupils being required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/20\/ambrose-bierces-pro-freedom-cynicism\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/20\/ambrose-bierces-pro-freedom-cynicism\/\">Ambrose Bierce\u2019s Pro-Freedom Cynicism<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/20\/ambrose-bierces-pro-freedom-cynicism\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the U.S.-backed regime in Afghanistan is a fine time to dip into one of America\u2019s most penetrating and underappreciated political analysts \u2013 Ambrose Bierce. The political establishment and its media allies are continually abusing the En&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281625"}],"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\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281868,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281625\/revisions\/281868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}