{"id":39919,"date":"2025-04-27T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/i-used-to-laugh-at-my-chilean-fathers-paranoia-about-life-in-the-us-not-any-more-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:23:06","slug":"i-used-to-laugh-at-my-chilean-fathers-paranoia-about-life-in-the-us-not-any-more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/i-used-to-laugh-at-my-chilean-fathers-paranoia-about-life-in-the-us-not-any-more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I used to laugh at my Chilean father\u2019s paranoia about life in the US \u2013 not any more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having fled here from Chile after Pinochet seized power in 1973 my father feared the state\u2019s arbitrary power to turn lives upside down. His outlook has never felt more relevant<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t open the door to nobody,\u201d my father warned throughout my childhood \u2013 right up until the day he died. He trusted no politicians, no organized religion and definitely no strangers knocking unannounced.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, his words echo louder than ever.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/apr\/27\/chile-trump-pinochet-authoritarianism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having fled here from Chile after Pinochet seized power in 1973 my father feared the state\u2019s arbitrary power to turn lives upside down. His outlook has never felt more relevant \u201cDon\u2019t open the door to nobody,\u201d my father warned throughout my childhood \u2013 right up until the day he died. He trusted no politicians, no &#8230; <a title=\"I used to laugh at my Chilean father\u2019s paranoia about life in the US \u2013 not any more\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/i-used-to-laugh-at-my-chilean-fathers-paranoia-about-life-in-the-us-not-any-more-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I used to laugh at my Chilean father\u2019s paranoia about life in the US \u2013 not any more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}