{"id":6,"date":"2008-08-14T20:11:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-08-14T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:11:22","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<div class=\"snap_preview\">\n<p>To the Anglican Samizdat blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Samizdat<\/strong> was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in <span class=\"mw-redirect\">Soviet-bloc<\/span> countries. Copies were made a few at a time, and those who received a copy would be expected to make more copies. This was often done by handwriting or typing.<\/p>\n<p>This grassroots practice to evade officially imposed censorship was fraught with danger as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Bukovsky defined it as follows: \u201cI myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and [may] get imprisoned for it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I don\u2019t suppose anyone will be imprisoned, so please feel free to comment on the state of the Anglican Communion, the Anglican church of Canada and the state of the DisUnion.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Anglican Samizdat blog. Samizdat was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Copies were made a few at a time, and those who received a copy would be expected to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/welcome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-in-particular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}