{"id":17543,"date":"2019-05-25T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17543"},"modified":"2019-05-25T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T17:29:10","slug":"why-orwells-1984-is-more-prophetic-than-ever-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/why-orwells-1984-is-more-prophetic-than-ever-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Orwell&#8217;s &#8216;1984&#8217; is more prophetic than ever in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mondrian.mashable.com\/2019%252F05%252F24%252Fcc%252F5c6380fc43164791a1be5da671817bee.f11d4.jpg%252F1200x630.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;George Orwell&#8217;s 1984 turns 70 this June, yet it feels more prophetic than ever. 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Its tale of a future in which a totalitarian regime has assumed full control over an individual&#8217;s body and mind strikes a nerve in a world where privacy and truth seem constantly under threat&#8230;&#8221; The Article &#8216;Why Orwell&#8217;s &#8216;1984&#8217; is more [&hellip;]<\/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":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17554,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/how-the-dying-george-orwell-wrote-his-totalitarian-dystopia-1984-on-a-remote-scottish-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":17543,"position":0},"title":"How the dying George Orwell wrote his totalitarian dystopia 1984 on a remote Scottish island","date":"June 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It took a little longer than expected, but here we are, living the Orwellian dream in 2019. 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