{"id":7365,"date":"2012-08-17T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7365"},"modified":"2012-08-17T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:19:41","slug":"free-pussy-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2012\/08\/17\/free-pussy-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Pussy Riot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve no doubt heard by now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-19297373\">Pussy Riot has been convicted of &#8220;hooliganism&#8221; and sentenced to two years in Russian prison<\/a> (which is probably not a very nice place).  You may recall that back in February &#8220;&#8230;the women staged a flashmob-style performance of their song close to the altar in [a Russian Orthodox] cathedral&#8230;.  Their brief, obscenity-laced performance, which implored the Virgin Mary to &#8220;throw Putin out&#8221;, enraged the Orthodox Church &#8211; its leader Patriarch Kirill said it amounted to blasphemy.&#8221; Well, I guess Russia has never really been known as a bastion of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Obama has offered Mitt Romney a deal: <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/08\/obama-camp-to-romney-lets-make-a-deal-on-tax-returns.php?ref=fpa\">release five years of tax returns, and we won&#8217;t ask you to release any more<\/a>.  Mitt says no.  You really have to wonder just how bad the stuff that&#8217;s in there is.  Must be that whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2012\/07\/17\/romney_s_tax_returns_is_the_2009_swiss_bank_account_amnesty_what_he_doesn_t_want_us_to_see_.html\">Swiss Bank amnesty program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s finally Friday again, and this has been a tough week.  Of course, I haven&#8217;t had to breathe in smoke all week, either, so I guess I can&#8217;t complain. Besides, Maher is back tonight.   <\/p>\n<p>So, mostly I just want to get the rest of this day over already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve no doubt heard by now, Pussy Riot has been convicted of &#8220;hooliganism&#8221; and sentenced to two years in Russian prison (which is probably not a very nice place). You may recall that back in February &#8220;&#8230;the women staged a flashmob-style performance of their song close to the altar in [a Russian Orthodox] cathedral&#8230;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7367,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions\/7367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}