{"id":590,"date":"2022-08-01T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=590"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:16","slug":"against-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/against-the-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Against the Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mendestryed-1024x788.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mendestryed-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mendestryed-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mendestryed-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mendestryed.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Coming to you in Hi-Def<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Pick a poison. That is a redundant statement, as ALL poisons are, well&#8230;..toxic. Today, nothing is more watered down and dangerous as the Main Stream Media. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2022\/07\/4k-tv-cgi-review.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab\">Television sets today<\/a> have a multitude of capabilities, as you can observe for yourself. <br><br>Where am exactly going with this?  Exactly nowhere. I just need to reiterate that the actions moving forward, need to reflect a THIRD PARTY presence.<br><br>Liberty on Purpose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick a poison. That is a redundant statement, as ALL poisons are, well&#8230;..toxic. Today, nothing is more watered down and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}