{"id":1801,"date":"2007-11-08T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2007-11-08T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T08:19:00","slug":"myanmar-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar \/ Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, remember that whole &#8220;monks being shot in the street&#8221; thing, in Burma?  Whatever happened with that?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s right,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/09\/world\/asia\/09myanmar.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\">the world turned a blind and impotent eye, and the bad guys won.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Word on the street is that having appeared in one of those protests is a 20 year jailable offense, and applauding or giving other public signs of approval is a 2 year offense.   Keep in mind as well that &#8220;jail&#8221; in Myanmar usually works out to &#8220;hard labor camp.&#8221;  People are still being rounded up from their homes &#8230; and we have no numbers on how many have been taken.  Names for those in prison?  Assurances that they&#8217;re actually *in* prison and not simply *gone*?  Don&#8217;t be silly.  We don&#8217;t even know how many there are.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/myanmar\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">New York Times Coverage<\/a> gives a pretty good summary.<\/p>\n<p>I hear there&#8217;s some good shit on TV these days.  Maybe I should try to get into that, instead of paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, remember that whole &#8220;monks being shot in the street&#8221; thing, in Burma? Whatever happened with that?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s right, the world turned a blind and impotent eye, and the bad guys won.<\/p>\n<p>Word on the street is that having appeared in one of those protests is a 20 year jailable offense, and applauding or <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1801\">Myanmar \/ Burma<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}