{"id":1219,"date":"2009-06-13T13:27:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2009-06-13T13:32:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T18:32:01","slug":"the-world-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/06\/13\/the-world-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post-election protests in the streets of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I0MkATcn04M&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Lots of fraud allegations going around.\u00a0 I&#8217;m no Persia expert, but it seems that there is enough conservative, religious fundamentalist support (particularly in rural areas) to conclude that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad\">Ahmadinejad<\/a> probably won, but these protests highlight a vexing governance problem.\u00a0 What to you do when a majority in a country support illiberal regimes and policies?\u00a0 Should the public be able to vote to curtail fundamental freedoms (speech, worship, assembly, etc.)?\u00a0 In our country, we say no.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to see these young people in the streets and not feel for their struggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post-election protests in the streets of Tehran. Lots of fraud allegations going around.\u00a0 I&#8217;m no Persia expert, but it seems that there is enough conservative, religious fundamentalist support (particularly in rural areas) to conclude that Ahmadinejad probably won, but these protests highlight a vexing governance problem.\u00a0 What to you do when a majority in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-iran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}