{"id":157,"date":"2004-08-11T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T00:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-11-27T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T18:53:29","slug":"blocked-by-saudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Banned in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Baldrick, an English expat working in Saudi Arabia, informs me that my other sites, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/hashblog\">Half-Mind Weblog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/half-mind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Half-Mind Catalog<\/a>, are officially blocked by the Ministry of Information. He and I wondered why.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-842\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-842\" title=\"banned\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/banned.gif\" alt=\"Banned poster\" width=\"308\" height=\"308\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banned CD jacket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, tonight, he told me about another blocked link, this one to the CD cover you see above. Now that I&#8217;ve seen it I fully understand why the Saudis blocked my sites.<\/p>\n<p>For. No. Fucking. Reason. Whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Good a reason as any, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Baldrick, an English expat working in Saudi Arabia, informs me that my other sites, the Half-Mind Weblog and Half-Mind Catalog, are officially blocked by the Ministry of Information. He and I wondered why. Then, tonight, he told me about another blocked link, this one to the CD cover you see above. Now that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother","category-a-series-of-tubes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}