{"id":1274,"date":"2015-01-17T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T05:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2015-01-17T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T05:57:55","slug":"yes-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/17\/yes-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy about MSG: Messenger of God is now more delicious than ajinomoto.<\/p>\n<p>In the last four days, unelected bureaucrats have resigned in fury because elected politicians, seeking a marginal political advantage (over\u00a0politicians from allied political parties!), have interfered in their functioning, and\u00a0in the process, shattered a major bureaucratic obstacle to freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0six months of political news that seemed like it was out of 1980s Alan Moore comics, we\u00a0now finally have news that seems like it&#8217;s out of Yes, Minister.\u00a0Of course, the new vacancies in the censor board mean that it&#8217;s incredibly likely the next one will be full of RSS-ish fellows, but lets enjoy this turn of events until then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy about MSG: Messenger of God is now more delicious than ajinomoto. In the last four days, unelected bureaucrats have resigned in fury because elected politicians, seeking a marginal political advantage (over\u00a0politicians from allied political parties!), have interfered in their functioning, and\u00a0in the process, shattered a major bureaucratic obstacle to freedom of speech. After\u00a0six [&hellip;]<\/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":"","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":[7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-movies-and-music","category-public-policy-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-ky","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}