{"id":1,"date":"2020-11-22T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:12:48","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello World – Info for First-Time Visitors!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Find me on:\u00a0 my\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>, on\u00a0Vimeo<\/a>,\u00a0Rumble<\/a>, Twitter\/X<\/a>\u00a0and at my\u00a0Facebook Author page<\/a> and now my Amazon Author<\/a> page.\u00a0 You can now register<\/a> for this site which allows you to comment with your account name.\u00a0 I am working on getting an email to send to registered users everytime there is a new post published, so this will be a nice shortcut.\u00a0 You can also subscribe using the RSS feed<\/a>, you will need either a feed reader (most browsers have an RSS feed ‘Add-In’ or ‘Extension’ available) or a program like Microsoft Outlook that can subscribe to RSS feeds, you then receive a notification and a link each time a post is published, some readers download the article for you.<\/p>\r\n

Hi there, and a warm welcome to anyone interested in free thinking and free living.\u00a0 This is intended to be a place of learning and a place of respect for a diverse spectrum of views, so feel free to be constructively critical and\/or to post links to your own work.<\/p>\r\n

I understand my<\/em> views may be offensive to some people and may cause distress or upset to others. Thus, I welcome constructive engagement with opinions diverse from my own and will publish any responses that are genuine attempts to engage in debate or discussion rather than an opportunity to string lots of expletives aimed at me or other “fascists”<\/em> together! As one with some roots in Germany and who lost family members fighting fascism, and who cut my political teeth in the socialist movement, to be called a “fascist” or a “racist” are really particularly ignorant pieces of slander. I still<\/em> believe in freedom, justice and equality for all even though I freely admit I am no longer a socialist. I still recognise the value of many things socialists believe, just not the primary means advocated by socialism, a strong State, to get them.<\/p>\r\n

Ignorance is<\/em> the great enemy of progess and I wish my blog to be a small part of ensuring we do not remain ignorant and easily controlled by those who want to control us “for our own good”<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n

All comments will be moderated before publish.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Find me on:\u00a0 my\u00a0YouTube channel, on\u00a0Vimeo,\u00a0Rumble, Twitter\/X\u00a0and at my\u00a0Facebook Author page and now my Amazon Author page.\u00a0 You can now register for this site which allows you to comment with your account name.\u00a0 I am working on getting an email to send to registered users everytime there is a new post published, so this will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}