{"id":1795,"date":"2008-11-14T10:47:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2008-11-14T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:47:22","slug":"friday-notes-sovereign-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/14\/friday-notes-sovereign-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Sovereign Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2008\/nov\/14\/prince-charles-monarchy\">Happy 60th Birthday, Chuck<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Now get a job and move out of your parents&#8217; house(s), you twit.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of twits and Kings, the King kids are as classy as ever, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/11\/king_family_seeks_to_cash_in_o.php\">looking for a piece of the action<\/a> on t-shirts featuring pictures of Obama and King.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;d you like to be in the position of having to buy a new country?\u00c2\u00a0 The Maldives, who expect their homeland to be submerged by rising sea levels (thanks, Global Warming!) are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/nov\/10\/maldives-climate-change\">testing the market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>So, what did eight years of a Bush Administration &#8211; which is all about promoting democracy (with a little dash of By Any Means Necessary, remember) &#8211; do for Burma, which suffers from one of the most repressive regimes on the planet?\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mattsteinglass.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/11\/lame-duck-appoints-burma-envoy\/\">Nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 60th Birthday, Chuck.\u00c2\u00a0 Now get a job and move out of your parents&#8217; house(s), you twit. ~ Speaking of twits and Kings, the King kids are as classy as ever, looking for a piece of the action on t-shirts featuring pictures of Obama and King. ~ How&#8217;d you like to be in the position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy","category-politics","category-society","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}