{"id":1087,"date":"2014-06-08T01:28:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T01:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/08\/stephen-fry-attacks-squalid-coalition-for\/"},"modified":"2014-06-08T01:28:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T01:28:38","slug":"stephen-fry-attacks-squalid-coalition-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/08\/stephen-fry-attacks-squalid-coalition-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry attacks &#8216;squalid&#8217; coalition for inaction on Snowden revelations."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/07\/stephen-fry-denounces-uk-government-edward-snowden-nsa-revelations'>Stephen Fry attacks &#8216;squalid&#8217; coalition for inaction on Snowden revelations.  <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Stephen Fry has denounced the government&rsquo;s failure to act over the mass surveillance programme revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, labelling its behaviour as &ldquo;squalid and rancid&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Opening a day of debate to galvanise action against spying by the British and US intelligence agencies, Fry said that exploiting the fear of terrorism is a &ldquo;duplicitous and deeply wrong means of excusing something as base as spying on the citizens of your own country&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fry attacks &#8216;squalid&#8217; coalition for inaction on Snowden revelations. Stephen Fry has denounced the government&rsquo;s failure to act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}