{"id":5300,"date":"2013-08-22T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2013-08-22T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:38:48","slug":"chelsea-manning-and-russia-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5300","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Manning and Russia Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idCABRE97J0JI20130822\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5301\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Manning-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Manning-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Manning.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In recent days, the Kremlin-funded 24-hour news network, Russia Today, spent a fair amount of their airtime discussing the case of Bradley Manning, the US soldier who leaked large chunks of information to Wikileaks a few years ago and was recently sentenced to 35 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The breaking news this morning is that Bradley Manning expressed his desire to begin hormone therapy, eventually undergo a gender reassignment operation, and live his, or rather, her life as a woman named <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idCABRE97J0JI20130822\">Chelsea Manning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how Russia Today will deal with this in the wake of Russia&#8217;s recently enacted, Draconian anti-gay legislation.<\/p>\n<p>[Correction: In the first version of this blog entry, I referred to the network as &#8220;Russia Times&#8221;. Its name is actually Russia Today, or more precisely, just RT.]<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5300' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, the Kremlin-funded 24-hour news network, Russia Today, spent a fair amount of their airtime discussing the case of Bradley Manning, the US soldier who leaked large chunks of information to Wikileaks a few years ago and was recently sentenced to 35 years in prison. The breaking news this morning is that Bradley <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5300' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-5-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}