{"id":1747,"date":"2009-12-28T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/1747"},"modified":"2009-12-28T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:54:10","slug":"nerds-rule-the-world-iranian-revolution-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/12\/28\/nerds-rule-the-world-iranian-revolution-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerds rule the world: Iranian Revolution edition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1949048,00.html>this<\/a> to be refreshingly counterintuitive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone knows I am a defender of theocratic government, although not in the current form. The difference lies in the fact that I intended for the people to choose the jurist and supervise his work&#8230; I now feel ashamed of the tyranny conducted under this banner. What we see now is the government of a military guardianship, not the guardian of Islamic scholars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The late Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this to be refreshingly counterintuitive: Everyone knows I am a defender of theocratic government, although not in the current form. The difference lies in the fact that I intended for the people to choose the jurist and supervise his work&#8230; I now feel ashamed of the tyranny conducted under this banner. What we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}