{"id":197636,"date":"2008-01-21T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/orwell-moment-of-the-day-mlk-memorial-outsourced-to-paragon-of-human-rights-china\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T22:38:00","slug":"orwell-moment-of-the-day-mlk-memorial-outsourced-to-paragon-of-human-rights-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/orwell-moment-of-the-day-mlk-memorial-outsourced-to-paragon-of-human-rights-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwell Moment of the Day: MLK Memorial Outsourced to Paragon of Human Rights, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I understand that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7dvt.com\/2007\/delegation-vermont-protests-outsourcing-mlk-memorial\">protests of the Vermont congressional delegation<\/a> (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2008\/01\/21\/mlk_statue\/\">here<\/a>) is largely an issue of local pride and economics for them, the idea that we are outsourcing this to a government that routinely imprisons dissidents, suppresses free speech, and aggressively uses the death penalty boggles the mind.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Onion<\/span><\/a>.  This is a real story.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Martin Luther King Birthday Holiday everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I understand that the protests of the Vermont congressional delegation (see also here) is largely an issue of local pride and economics for them, the idea that we are outsourcing this to a government that routinely imprisons dissidents, suppresses free speech, and aggressively uses the death penalty boggles the mind. This isn&#8217;t from The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1051,1023,978,982,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-hypocrisy","category-labor","category-politics","category-stupid","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197636"}],"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=197636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}