{"id":15887,"date":"2018-03-01T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15887"},"modified":"2018-03-01T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:49:13","slug":"when-staying-silent-is-no-longer-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/when-staying-silent-is-no-longer-an-option\/","title":{"rendered":"When Staying Silent Is No Longer an Option"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’re staying silent STILL, with all of this shit going on, there may be something wrong with you. Feel guilty yet? You should.
\nWhat will it take to push you over the edge? Will you wait until your friends are being arrested as terrorists for speaking their minds? Or maybe when they start herding foreign born American citizens and permanent residents into concentration camps, will it hit home then?
\nThat’s where this shit is heading, and the time to defend our democracy is NOW.<\/p>\n

The Article ‘When Staying Silent Is No Longer an Option’ originally appeared on https:\/\/buff.ly\/2taAMae<\/a>
\nJamie’s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re staying silent STILL, with all of this shit going on, there may be something wrong with you. Feel guilty yet? You should. What will it take to push you over the edge? Will you wait until your friends are being arrested as terrorists for speaking their minds? Or maybe when they start herding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11601,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/chewbacca-singing-silent-night-is-what-you-need-right-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":15887,"position":0},"title":"Chewbacca singing ‘Silent Night’ is what you need right now","date":"December 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Merry Christmas and a Silent Night to All :)http:\/\/on.mash.to\/2i4985a","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11943,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/something-silent-but-deadly-is-killing-galaxies\/","url_meta":{"origin":15887,"position":1},"title":"Something Silent But Deadly Is Killing Galaxies","date":"January 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"What could be sucking the life out of innocent galaxies that aren't bothering anyone?! #spacehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2jyUPIN","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8916,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/mythbusters-build-team-is-back-together-for-a-netflix-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":15887,"position":2},"title":"‘Mythbusters’ build team is back together for a Netflix series","date":"September 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Sweet!! 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