{"id":50,"date":"2025-12-17T23:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:47:32","slug":"test-about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-layout-service-3 gb-layout-columns-2 gb-2-col-equal gb-columns-center alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:15%;padding-right:5%;padding-bottom:15%;padding-left:5%\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-5 gb-is-responsive-column\" style=\"max-width:1200px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theforbiddenidea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P8-c-3-1024x884.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column gb-is-vertically-aligned-center\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Mark A. Monoscalco<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For much of my life, I was the first person at a social gathering to say, \u201cLet\u2019s not talk politics.\u201d Over time, I realized that staying silent about my beliefs was not contributing to making the world a better place. This realization led me to create a blog called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Defending Civil Society<\/a>.\u201d I chose this name because I believe that civil society is under attack from all directions by adversaries of individual liberty.<br><br>Recently, I launched an individual liberty reading list through a website named \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therootofliberty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Root of Liberty<\/a>.\u201d This resource includes curated reading materials and discussion notes, all aimed at helping you become a more compelling advocate for individual liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My latest project is a soon to be published book,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theforbiddenidea.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Forbidden Idea: Hidden Truths About Individual Liberty, Economic Freedom, Political Philosophy, and History<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/markmonoscalco.com\/books\/the-forbidden-idea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><br><\/a><br>I invite you to join me in the ongoing struggle against the forces of collectivism and tyranny. If you wish to get in touch, please use the Contact Form at the top of this page or at any of the following social media sites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mewe.com\/markmonoscalco.78\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MeWe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DefendingCivilSociety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/defendingcivilsociety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/markm1776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post","without-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defendingcivilsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}