{"id":1239,"date":"2010-02-25T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:10:41","slug":"hands-off-our-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Hands off our dial!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=http:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/object2\/569\/107\/n312651831782_2799.jpg><br \/>\nJust back from a protest outside Parliament to protect Radio NZ, our public broadcaster. I figure about 150-200 people there, which isn&#8217;t bad for a protest pulled out of nothing on Facebook by a guy in Hamilton.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#!\/pages\/Save-Radio-New-Zealand\/312651831782?ref=ts\">the Facebook group<\/a>, with nearly 15K members as I type.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the campaign page, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issues.co.nz\/handsoff\">Hands off our dial<\/a>, just launched this morning with snazzy petition to sign.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a Kiwi I reckon you should give this some support. Russel Norman said it best at the protest today &#8211; what we&#8217;re really trying to protect is our democracy, because a functional and fair democracy is only possible with a strong public-owned media.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.issues.co.nz\/handsoff\">Get involved.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a protest outside Parliament to protect Radio NZ, our public broadcaster. I figure about 150-200 people there, which isn&#8217;t bad for a protest pulled out of nothing on Facebook by a guy in Hamilton. Here&#8217;s the Facebook group, with nearly 15K members as I type. Here&#8217;s the campaign page, Hands off our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hands off our dial!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political","category-mediawatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-jZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}