{"id":783559,"date":"2022-08-28T04:29:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T04:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=253579"},"modified":"2022-08-28T04:29:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T04:29:15","slug":"blowing-up-is-hard-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/28\/blowing-up-is-hard-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Up is Hard to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_253581\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253581\" class=\"wp-image-253581 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mapasusie-680x822.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"822\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-253581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Susie Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>You see, real violence comes from corporations and governments that create droughts and floods and storms that starve and displace millions. Then there\u2019s the ongoing killings of environmental activists, called ecoterrorists by the state. Above all, Ma, we got to see that there\u2019s a difference between violence done to sentient beings and the property damage of protests that disrupts business-as-usual.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/28\/blowing-up-is-hard-to-do\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/28\/blowing-up-is-hard-to-do\/\">Blowing Up is Hard to Do<\/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\/2022\/08\/28\/blowing-up-is-hard-to-do\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by Susie Day.<\/p>\n<p>You see, real violence comes from corporations and governments that create droughts and floods and storms that starve and displace millions. Then there\u2019s the ongoing killings of environmental activists, called ecoterrorists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,229,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783559"}],"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\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}