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A difference between free people and slaves<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oleg Volk<\/a> strikes again with this image illustrating the difference between slaves and free persons<\/a>, via SF writer and firearms instructor Joel Rosenberg’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A difference between free people and slaves Oleg Volk strikes again with this image illustrating the difference between slaves and free persons, via SF writer and firearms instructor Joel Rosenberg’s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-464","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4176,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4176","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":0},"title":"Again, Punctuation Matters","author":"Chas S. 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