{"id":58533,"date":"2011-08-23T14:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/58533\/heroes-noam-chomsky\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:35:49","slug":"heroes-noam-chomsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/58533\/heroes-noam-chomsky\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Noam Chomsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6e\/Chomsky.jpg\/200px-Chomsky.jpg\" alt=\"Noam Chomsky\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I find it very difficult to write about how I view Noam Chomsky.  In my teens, during the 60s, he was a very powerful figure.  He questioned the establishment and many of us were doing the same and he symbolized our unheard voices.  <\/p>\n<p>Now that he has become to some &#8220;the&#8221; authority on all matters of non-establishment thinking.  We are forbidden to question his views.  I don&#8217;t think he should be idolized to that extent.  We must question our heroes as much as we question our villains.<\/p>\n<p>He has much to say and should be listened to but not worshiped in awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it very difficult to write about how I view Noam Chomsky. In my teens, during the 60s, he was a very powerful figure. He questioned the establishment and many of us were doing the same and he symbolized our unheard voices. Now that he has become to some &#8220;the&#8221; authority on all matters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,1428,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-people","category-politics-2","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}