{"id":196698,"date":"2008-04-01T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/the-chinese-olympic-public-relations-clown-show\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:54:00","slug":"the-chinese-olympic-public-relations-clown-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/the-chinese-olympic-public-relations-clown-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Olympic Public Relations Clown Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now the Chinese are claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7324473.stm\">Tibetan protesters are planning suicide attacks<\/a>&#8230;..puhleeze.<\/p>\n<p>When they won the Olympic bid, they should have hired a competent PR firm.<\/p>\n<p>The PRC public relations apparatus may be the only one in the world more incompetent than the Democratic Party public relations apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now the Chinese are claiming that Tibetan protesters are planning suicide attacks&#8230;..puhleeze. When they won the Olympic bid, they should have hired a competent PR firm. The PRC public relations apparatus may be the only one in the world more incompetent than the Democratic Party public relations apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,971,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-civil-rights","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196698"}],"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=196698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}