{"id":176733,"date":"2024-02-26T22:42:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176733"},"modified":"2024-02-26T22:42:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:42:49","slug":"just-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/02\/26\/just-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Just A Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">The world divided, in turmoil. <br><br>Aaron Bushnell killed himself in protest. <br><br>On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, approached the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., and committed an act of self-immolation at the front gate to protest what he called genocide being committed by Israel in the Israel-Hamas war. During the incident, Bushnell said he was protesting &#8220;what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers&#8221; and declared that he &#8220;will no longer be complicit in genocide&#8221; before dousing himself with gasoline and lighting himself on fire. As he burned, Bushnell repeatedly shouted &#8220;Free Palestine!&#8221; while local emergency services arrived on scene.<br><br>But nothing changes or will change&#8230;<br><br>Old men decide to go war,  politicians. <br><br>Nothing changes&#8230;  <br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world divided, in turmoil. Aaron Bushnell killed himself in protest. On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, approached the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., and committed an act of self-immolation at the front gate to protest what he called genocide being committed by Israel in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/02\/26\/just-a-dream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just A Dream<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dove.png?fit=658%2C682&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JYx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179120,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/07\/24\/groundhog-day-anybody\/","url_meta":{"origin":176733,"position":0},"title":"Groundhog Day anybody?","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 She Was A Lady Of Lesiure A certain slow rhythm has crept into my life and established itself. 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