{"id":421,"date":"2013-01-04T21:50:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=421"},"modified":"2013-01-05T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T21:25:41","slug":"fighting-totalitarianism-with-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/fighting-totalitarianism-with-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting totalitarianism &#8212; with humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you oppose a repressive government backed by a massive army and police force, high-tech savvy including complete control of the Internet, and the world&#8217;s second largest and fastest growing economy? With humor. (Head-on attacks are absurd.) Nick Kristof <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/30\/opinion\/sunday\/kristof-hitting-china-with-humor.html\">explains Ai Wei-Wei&#8217;s method<\/a> in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>This illustrates my second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/american-koans-1-volunteers\/\">American Koan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h2>Size<\/h2>\n<p>How to fight against a much stronger opponent:<\/p>\n<p>A drunk walks out of a bar, and a fly lands on his nose.<br \/>\nHe tries to smash it and bloodies his own face.<\/p>\n<p>One trick is flying away just before you get crushed.<\/p>\n<p>The other is, knowing when your opponent is drunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you oppose a repressive government backed by a massive army and police force,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[191,193,24,192,476,194,195,190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}