{"id":34141,"date":"2026-05-04T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34141"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:56:48","slug":"tin-soldiers-and-nixon-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34141","title":{"rendered":"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;as I always do, I mark the day of the Kent State massacre every May 4th and today makes 56 years since it happened&#8230;and nothing has changed&#8230;Americans are still being killed by their government for still exercising their constitutional rights under the first amendment&#8230;I was a 16 year old kid trying to figure out how I fit in the world and these murders ripped the cloth off my eyes and I saw our government not as the benign entity for good but as a terrible one run by people who didn&#8217;t have any idea what the constitution meant and didn&#8217;t care&#8230;they thought in terms of &#8220;law and order&#8221; and anyone not toeing the line they wanted was fair game to be murdered in the streets&#8230;that started me on t he path I still follow today of a deep and abiding cynicism after seeing ordinary people murder their fellow citizens and, with what is still going on today, nothing changes&#8230;geez&#8230;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as I always do, I mark the day of the Kent State massacre every May 4th and today makes 56 years since it happened&#8230;and nothing has changed&#8230;Americans are still being killed by their government for still exercising their constitutional rights under the first amendment&#8230;I was a 16 year old kid trying to figure out how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tin soldiers and Nixon coming&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4545],"class_list":["post-34141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-kent-state-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34142,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34141\/revisions\/34142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}