{"id":1771,"date":"2013-06-11T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T22:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2013-06-11T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T22:38:19","slug":"all-hail-edward-joseph-snowden-wherever-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"All Hail Edward Snowden, Wherever You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hero or traitor, this story of how Snowden, using the code name Verax, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/11\/us\/how-edward-j-snowden-orchestrated-a-blockbuster-story.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=1&amp;\">made contact with reporters<\/a> is destined for classic status. He is a real professional (and I vote for hero).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask \u2014 loudly \u2014 for directions to another part of the hotel. If all seemed well, the source would walk past holding a Rubik\u2019s Cube.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He apparently never let his girlfriend\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/snowdens-girlfriend-a-dancer-and-nature-lover-said-to-be-shocked-by-his-actions\/2013\/06\/11\/01e2f31c-d29b-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html\">who describes herself as a \u201cworld-traveling, pole-dancing superhero\u201d<\/a>\u2014 know what he was up to, and just disappeared. She seems like a real sweetheart in fact. Well, whatever it takes to save us, that&#8217;s what super heroes do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hero or traitor, this story of how Snowden, using the code name Verax, made contact with reporters is destined for classic status. He is a real professional (and I vote for hero). The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask \u2014 loudly \u2014 for directions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}