{"id":18857,"date":"2017-02-19T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=18857"},"modified":"2017-02-22T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:27:52","slug":"shedding-light-on-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=18857","title":{"rendered":"Shedding light on truth&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17182\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-960x634.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-19 at 7.38.16 AM\" width=\"580\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-960x634.png 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-150x99.png 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-270x178.png 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-600x396.png 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-880x581.png 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-580x383.png 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-350x231.png 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-400x264.png 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-370x244.png 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-500x330.png 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM-750x495.png 750w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-7.38.16-AM.png 1003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not an apology, but a statement of fact! \u00a0It seems that in America today the only people that believe they have freedom of speech are those that stand in a polar opposite position from where I and many of my friends stand. \u00a0Since I do not want to be the person that insites riots, I never have, and I never will. \u00a0I have taken down this post and will return to doing photographic and faith related posts. For anyone who thinks this is capitulation, I do this in the same spirit that Christ did not resist when he was arrested and taken to be crucified. \u00a0I am in no way drawing a parallel between myself and Christ, I belong to Him, He bought me at a price and I&#8217;m simply performing an act as one seeking to be a peace maker. I doubt my shared political feelings make a difference anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While I continue to be heart broken as I watch what is happening to my country, I will not speak publicly on such matters, but only in the close confines of friends. \u00a0I will, as I ask you to do, pray for America, and for the defeat of spiritual powers of evil exerting their force on our nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the pilgrim<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; This is not an apology, but a statement of fact! \u00a0It seems that in America today the only people that believe they have freedom of speech are those that stand in a polar opposite position from where I and many of my friends stand. \u00a0Since I do not want to be the person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18857"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18865,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions\/18865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}