{"id":42289,"date":"2014-12-18T02:46:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T02:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42289"},"modified":"2014-12-18T02:55:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T02:55:51","slug":"comparative-safety-nsa-and-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42289","title":{"rendered":"Comparative safety: NSA and Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; clear proof that blasphemy is more provocative than ironic protest ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It is apparently safer for the <strong>Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/pages\/eff-nsa-graphics\">put headphones on the US bald eagle<\/a> as featured in the seal of the <strong>National Security Agency<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SPEC-DQ-Buddha-earphones.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SPEC-DQ-Buddha-earphones.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ Buddha earphones\" width=\"602\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SPEC-DQ-Buddha-earphones.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SPEC-DQ-Buddha-earphones-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; than it is for a <strong>Kiwi bar-keeper<\/strong> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2014\/12\/13\/in-burma-its-a-crime-to-put-headphones-on-the-buddha\/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost\">put headphones on the <strong>Buddha<\/strong><\/a> while advertising an event at his bar in Rangoon, Burma.<\/p>\n<p>A little something to chew on.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>It seems plausible that the Buddha, had he wished to wear headphones, would have chosen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sony-MDRNC7-Canceling-On-Ear-headphones\/dp\/B001EYU3L2\/\">noise-canceling<\/a> kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; clear proof that blasphemy is more provocative than ironic protest ] . It is apparently safer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation to put headphones on the US bald eagle as featured in the seal of the National Security Agency&#8230; &#8230; than it is for a Kiwi bar-keeper to put headphones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1146,649,477,526,627,239,936,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blasphemy","category-buddhist","category-burma","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-ic","category-surveillance","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42295,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42289\/revisions\/42295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}