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class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Everyone-is-welcome-here.webp 952w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Everyone-is-welcome-here-300x94.webp 300w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Everyone-is-welcome-here-768x240.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 952px) 100vw, 952px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Dan Rather: <a href=\"https:\/\/steady.substack.com\/p\/revelations\" target=\"_blank\">Revelations<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Sarah Inama teaches sixth grade. Like many teachers, she has adorned her classroom with posters and signs meant to inspire her students. One of those posters depicts hands of various hues with the text \u201cEveryone is welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, Inama was told that the poster violates school district policy and that she must take it down. The policy \u201censures that classrooms remain neutral.\u201d The school district informed Inama that the poster is considered a \u201cpersonal opinion\u201d and that \u201ceveryone is welcome here\u201d is not something everyone believes.<\/p>\n<p>Though she took down the poster immediately, after reflecting on what happened, she put it back up a few days later. In an email to her principal, Inama explained, \u201cI don\u2019t agree that this is a personal opinion. I feel that this is the basis of public education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, the poster remains on her classroom wall, but it must be gone by the end of the school year, or she could face repercussions for insubordination.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow, to what the poster reminded me of and our reason to smile: Alvin Ailey\u2019s dance masterpiece \u201cRevelations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the first movement, the dancers \u2014 Black, brown, and white \u2014 raise their hands, reaching upward to rise. The imagery and the sentiment are similar to Inama\u2019s poster.<\/p>\n<p>Ailey, the acclaimed dancer, choreographer, director, and activist, was born in rural, segregated, Depression-era Texas in 1931. He choreographed \u201cRevelations,\u201d his most enduring piece, when he was just 29 years old. It has been described as a fusion of ballet, modern dance, jazz, and Black vernacular set to spirituals, gospel, and blues.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend watching the entire dance. The transcendent finale is more than worth your time.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Revelations - Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kDXerubF4I4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Heather Cox Richardson: <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/march-22-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Letters from an American &#8211; March 22, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nMills was a former state attorney general, and her position is that it is her job as governor to follow state and federal law. But Trump seems to be trying to make his fight with her personal. So long as she is willing to kowtow to him, the \u201ccase\u201d can be \u201csettled.\u201d Exactly what she is supposed to be apologizing to him for is unclear, unless it is that she stood up to him, a rare enough event that at the time, Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times noted: \u201cSomething happened at the White House Friday afternoon that almost never happens these days. Somebody defied President Trump. Right to his face.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>Dan Pfeiffer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.messageboxnews.com\/p\/how-to-channel-your-anger-at-elon\" target=\"_blank\">How to Channel Your Anger at Elon Musk<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court race in Wisconsin is a chance to show that grassroots activism can beat the World&#8217;s richest man<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-22-Toby-at-Tesla-dealership-in-Berkeley.png\" alt=\"Toby at Tesla dealership in Berkeley\" title=\"Toby at Tesla dealership in Berkeley\" width=\"368\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-22-Toby-at-Tesla-dealership-in-Berkeley.png 368w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-22-Toby-at-Tesla-dealership-in-Berkeley-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nThousands are protesting at Tesla dealerships all across the country. Those peaceful protests are having their intended effect by drawing attention to Musk\u2019s deranged actions. Still, there is another opportunity to send a message to Musk right around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>On April 1, Wisconsin will hold an election for a key Supreme Court seat. While the race is technically non-partisan, the Democrats lined up behind Dane County Judge Susan Crawford and Republicans Brad Schimel, a former state attorney general. However, the race has primarily become about Musk. The world\u2019s richest man already spent $10 million to help elect Schimel.<\/p>\n<p>Electing Susan Crawford would be good for democracy in Wisconsin, but if grassroots activists can defeat Musk, it will send a powerful signal to Republicans about the dangers of enabling Musk\u2019s worst behavior.<\/p>\n<h2>Express: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/2031314\/jeremy-clarkson-declares-victory-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Clarkson &#8216;declares victory&#8217; over Elon Musk 17 years after Tesla CEO sued him<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson took aim at Elon Musk as Tesla sales tank after the CEO&#8217;s appointment into the Trump administration.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jeremy-Clarkson.avif\" alt=\"Jeremy Clarkson\" title=\"Jeremy Clarkson\" width=\"940\" height=\"848\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jeremy-Clarkson.avif 940w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jeremy-Clarkson-300x271.avif 300w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jeremy-Clarkson-768x693.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOn Sunday (March 23), the motoring journalist revealed that he\u2019d been sued by Musk back in 2008 after he gave the Tesla Roadster a bad review on the BBC evening show. In his latest column for The Times, Clarkson explained that he found the car \u201cunreliable\u201d.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cMusk was very angry about this and sued us for defamation, claiming I had a problem with electrical cars and had written the piece before even setting foot in the car. He lost the case, and the appeal, and he\u2019s never really got over it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>Christina Pagel: <a href=\"https:\/\/christinapagel.substack.com\/p\/we-are-learning-the-wrong-lessons\" target=\"_blank\">We are learning the wrong lessons from lockdown<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>And unless we learn the right ones, we risk making the same mistakes in a new pandemic<\/p>\n<p>England started its first of three lockdowns exactly five years ago. The immediate impacts of lockdown were devastating for many, and the longer term harmful impacts are becoming increasingly clear and still emerging. Lockdown was a massive society wide intervention \u2013 it is right and proper that its impacts be studied in detail and lessons learned from its implementation and extent. But the tenor of reporting and public opinion seems to be that \u201clockdowns were terrible and so we must not have lockdowns again\u201d. This is the wrong lesson. Lockdowns are terrible but so are unchecked deadly pandemics. The question should be \u201clockdowns were terrible, so how can we prevent the spread of a new pandemic so we never need one again?\u201d.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Daily-hospital-admissions-with-COVID-in-England-March-2020-April-2021.webp\" alt=\"Daily hospital admissions with COVID in England March 2020 - April 2021\" title=\"Daily hospital admissions with COVID in England March 2020 - April 2021\" width=\"1204\" height=\"844\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Daily-hospital-admissions-with-COVID-in-England-March-2020-April-2021.webp 1204w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Daily-hospital-admissions-with-COVID-in-England-March-2020-April-2021-300x210.webp 300w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Daily-hospital-admissions-with-COVID-in-England-March-2020-April-2021-1024x718.webp 1024w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Daily-hospital-admissions-with-COVID-in-England-March-2020-April-2021-768x538.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1204px) 100vw, 1204px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>The real lessons from lockdown<\/strong><br \/>\nSo &#8211; these are my lessons from lockdown. Firstly, lockdowns are devastating in their impacts, both in the short and long term, particularly on younger people and on more deprived communities. Secondly, lockdowns can and should be avoided \u2013 but by tackling the spread of an infectious disease not by doing nothing! Preventing future lockdowns requires planning, preparation, investment in public health infrastructure, and investment in testing, virology and medical research &#8211; and the fundamental acceptance that you can\u2019t wing a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it\u2019s possible that a future pandemic will be severe enough \u2013 just reaching our shores too quickly, or being too infectious or too deadly &#8211; that our preparation still fails and a lockdown is needed as a last resort.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>Closer to the Edge: <a href=\"https:\/\/closertotheedge.substack.com\/p\/texas-abortion-disaster-deaths-delays\" target=\"_blank\">Texas abortion disaster: deaths, delays, and desparate damage control<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Texas&#8217; war on abortion isn&#8217;t just ideological \u2014 it&#8217;s lethal. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Lone Star State has become ground zero for one of the most disastrous public health experiments in modern American history. With draconian abortion laws forcing doctors to hesitate in medical emergencies, pregnant women are dying. And now, with blood on their hands, Texas Republicans are scrambling to &#8220;clarify&#8221; the very ban they once celebrated.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/abortion-protest.webp\" alt=\"abortion protest\" title=\"abortion protest\" width=\"1272\" height=\"716\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/abortion-protest.webp 1272w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/abortion-protest-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/abortion-protest-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/abortion-protest-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1272px) 100vw, 1272px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>Jay Kuo: <a href=\"https:\/\/statuskuo.substack.com\/p\/in-the-middle-kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">In the middle Kingdom<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>And a note about coming back through U.S. customs and immigration<\/p>\n<p>For the next few days, I\u2019ll be in Beijing, China settling some matters leftover from Ma\u2019s estate. I arrived this evening to the bustling noise of the Beijing Capital Airport, where the gleaming, tall sweeps of the architecture still prevent the sheer chaos on the ground!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jay-Kuo-in-Beijing-Capital-Airport.webp\" alt=\"Jay Kuo in Beijing Capital Airport\" title=\"Jay Kuo in Beijing Capital Airport\" width=\"1272\" height=\"895\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jay-Kuo-in-Beijing-Capital-Airport.webp 1272w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jay-Kuo-in-Beijing-Capital-Airport-300x211.webp 300w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jay-Kuo-in-Beijing-Capital-Airport-1024x721.webp 1024w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jay-Kuo-in-Beijing-Capital-Airport-768x540.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1272px) 100vw, 1272px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMany folks on social media have commented worrying about my being able to get back into the U.S. given my anti-Trump writings. I personally don\u2019t think we\u2019re <em>quite<\/em> there yet, where U.S. citizens are routinely singled out and detained for their political views.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>Closer to the Edge: Jessica Aber\u2019s Sudden Death and the Secrets She Took with Her<\/h2>\n<p>Jessica Aber\u2019s death feels like one of those stories that\u2019s meant to fade quietly into the background \u2014 a tragic headline that people are supposed to forget. But when a career prosecutor who spent her life chasing Russian cybercriminals, CIA leaks, and war criminals turns up dead just weeks after resigning, forgetting isn\u2019t an option.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jessica-Aber.webp\" alt=\"Jessica Aber\" title=\"Jessica Aber\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jessica-Aber.webp 333w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Jessica-Aber-200x300.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>Independent: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/world-population-billions-more-study-b2718787.html\" target=\"_blank\">There could be billions more people on Earth than previously thought<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Research warns needs of rural residents could be under-represented in decision-making<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>NY Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250323174509\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/23\/us\/politics\/spacex-contracts-musk-doge-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">Musk Is Positioned to Profit Off Billions in New Government Contracts<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk\u2019s allies and employees who hold government positions.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>Fast Company: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91303124\/trump-institute-of-museum-and-library-services-explainer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump is dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Here\u2019s what it does<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The IMLS provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science, and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and historic sites.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/library.jpg\" alt=\"library\" title=\"library\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/library.jpg 750w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/library-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Boing Boing: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2025\/03\/23\/reading-between-the-lines-trump-restricts-access-to-border-straddling-library-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reading between the lines: Trump restricts access to border-straddling library (video)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>For over 100 years, Canadians and Americans have shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haskelloperahouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Haskell Free Library and Opera House<\/a>. The Trump Administration is aggressively ending this harmony.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S. to block Canadians from entering border-straddling library\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1phUIWGTDfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>NPR: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/23\/nx-s1-5326573\/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mark-Graham-in-front-of-Internet-Archive-servers.webp\" alt=\"Mark Graham in front of Internet Archive servers\" title=\"Mark Graham in front of Internet Archive servers\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mark-Graham-in-front-of-Internet-Archive-servers.webp 800w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mark-Graham-in-front-of-Internet-Archive-servers-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mark-Graham-in-front-of-Internet-Archive-servers-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAs one of the few large-scale archivists to back up the web, the Internet Archive finds itself in a particularly unique position right now. After President Trump&#8217;s inauguration in January, some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/01\/31\/nx-s1-5282274\/trump-administration-purges-health-websites\" target=\"_blank\">federal web pages vanished<\/a>. While some pages were removed entirely, many came back online with changes that the new administration&#8217;s officials said were made to conform to Trump&#8217;s executive orders to remove &#8220;diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies.&#8221; Thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">datasets were wiped<\/a> \u2014 mostly at agencies focused on science and the environment \u2014 in the days following Trump&#8217;s return to the White House.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nGraham noted that, for example, the Internet Archive is currently the only place the public can find a copy of an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230101012026\/https:\/\/january6report.house.gov\/timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\">interactive timeline detailing the events of Jan. 6<\/a>. The timeline is a product of the congressional committee that investigated the Capitol attack, and has since been taken down from their website. Graham said it&#8217;s in the public&#8217;s interest to save such records.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Internet Archive doesn&#8217;t catch everything. A report about the risks of bird flu to people and pets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/health\/cdc-bird-flu-cats-people.html\" target=\"_blank\">briefly appeared and disappeared on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website<\/a>. Graham said it appeared that the Wayback Machine wasn&#8217;t able to record it in time.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-left: -1em;\" \/>\n<li>\n<h2>Intercetpt: <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/21\/texas-greg-abbott-house-democrats-special-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas\u2019s GOP Governor Can Arbitrarily Deny Democrats a Seat in Congress Until Next Year<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Texas\u2019s heavily Democratic 18th Congressional District has an empty seat. State law gives Greg Abbott the power to delay the election to fill it.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DOE-active-shooter-drills.jpg\" alt=\"DOE active shooter drills\" title=\"DOE active shooter drills\" width=\"1864\" height=\"1263\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DOE-active-shooter-drills.jpg 1864w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DOE-active-shooter-drills-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DOE-active-shooter-drills-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DOE-active-shooter-drills-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DOE-active-shooter-drills-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1864px) 100vw, 1864px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Rather: Revelations Sarah Inama teaches sixth grade. Like many teachers, she has adorned her classroom with posters and signs meant to inspire her students. One of those posters depicts hands of various hues with the text \u201cEveryone is welcome here.\u201d In January, Inama was told that the poster violates school district policy and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}