{"id":22941,"date":"2025-03-29T17:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/with-apologies-and-then-they-came-for-me\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:15:40","slug":"with-apologies-and-then-they-came-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/with-apologies-and-then-they-came-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"With apologies, \u2018And then they came for me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With apologies to Martin Niem\u00f6ller\u2019s famous poem:<\/p>\n<p>First, they came for the illegal immigrants, and I did not speak out \u2013 because I was native born.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the Palestinian protesters because they were deemed to be terrorists, and I did not speak out \u2013 because I wasn\u2019t a Palestinian.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the liberals, because they were \u201cthe enemy of the people,\u201d and I did not speak out \u2013 because I was afraid.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for me, a gun-toting MAGA, because the dictator was afraid of insurrection, and there was no one left to speak for me.<\/p>\n<p>Beware the slippery slope of free-speech suppression. Are you next?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deborah Uroda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-abf8e2196f3a021fdd8fae1a2d357c55\">Cortez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Martin Niem\u00f6ller\u2019s famous poem: First, they came for the illegal immigrants, and I did not speak out \u2013 because I was native born. Then they came for the Palestinian protesters because they were deemed to be terrorists, and I did not speak out \u2013 because I wasn\u2019t a Palestinian. Then they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22941"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}