{"id":199154,"date":"2007-08-30T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-50\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T04:21:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/29\/reincarnation_ban\/\">China is implementing a law that requires state permission for reincarnation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It appears that this is all a cunning plan <sup>*<\/sup> by the Chinese government to game the system for finding a successor to the Dali Lama when he dies.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it could just be bureaucratic bloody-mindedness, something the Chinese quite literally invented over 3000 years ago.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/><sup>*<\/sup>A plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is implementing a law that requires state permission for reincarnation. It appears that this is all a cunning plan * by the Chinese government to game the system for finding a successor to the Dali Lama when he dies. Then again, it could just be bureaucratic bloody-mindedness, something the Chinese quite literally invented over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1021,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-religion","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199154"}],"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=199154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}