{"id":6081,"date":"2024-10-18T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2024-10-18T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T10:17:23","slug":"never-real-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2024-10-18\/never-real-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"They never came for me, because I was not a real journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\"><em><strong>A message from history to my fellow journalists on the British state&#8217;s persecution of Asa Winstanley:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First they came for Julian Assange<br \/>\nAnd I did not speak out<br \/>\nBecause I was not Julian Assange<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the Palestinian journalists<br \/>\nAnd I did not speak out<br \/>\nBecause I was not a Palestinian journalist<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the independent journalists<br \/>\nAnd I did not speak out<br \/>\nBecause I was not an independent journalist<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the investigative journalists<br \/>\nAnd I did not speak out<br \/>\nBecause I was not an investigative journalist<\/p>\n<p>They never came for me<br \/>\nAnd I never spoke out<br \/>\nBecause I was not a real journalist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message from history to my fellow journalists on the British state&#8217;s persecution of Asa Winstanley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-6081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-israel-lobby","9":"tag-security-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6086,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}