{"id":1976,"date":"2026-01-27T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:24:25","slug":"state-of-emergency-declared-and-now-the-national-guard-is-deployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"State of Emergency declared\u2026 and now the National Guard is deployed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For a few hours, St. Paul became a terrifying preview of America\u2019s most fragile secret: our cities don\u2019t run on roads and wires anymore \u2014 they run on code. When that code dies, everything else follows. The Wi-Fi goes first, but then it\u2019s payroll systems, emergency communications, public records, utilities, even the basic trust that tomorrow will look like yesterday. A governor signing an emergency order for cyber troops would have sounded like science fiction ten years ago. Today, it\u2019s a quiet press release.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What should terrify us isn\u2019t just that someone may have reached into a U.S. city and switched it off. It\u2019s that it happened in near silence. No prime-time hearings, no national debate, only a few officials carefully choosing their words while a foreign adversary may be studying our reaction \u2014 or our lack of one \u2014 and planning what to do next.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few hours, St. Paul became a terrifying preview of America\u2019s most fragile secret: our cities don\u2019t run on roads and wires anymore \u2014 they run on code. When &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}