{"id":195841,"date":"2008-06-10T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/president-backs-down-on-contraversial-spy-law\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:39:00","slug":"president-backs-down-on-contraversial-spy-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/president-backs-down-on-contraversial-spy-law\/","title":{"rendered":"President Backs Down on Contraversial Spy Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">the US<\/span> president who did this.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7432895.stm\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/10\/america\/venez.php\">Venezuela&#8217;s president<\/a>, who reversed himself on a controversial security law.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Chavez has a better understanding of the will of the people, and of reality, than George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Frightening, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not the US president who did this. It&#8217;s Venezuela&#8217;s president, who reversed himself on a controversial security law. Hugo Chavez has a better understanding of the will of the people, and of reality, than George W. Bush. Frightening, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1068],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}