{"id":308,"date":"2009-04-19T20:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/letterstofamouspeople\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-04-19T20:26:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:26:52","slug":"dear-president-ahmedinejad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/dear-president-ahmedinejad\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear President Ahmedinejad,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really kind of you to come out in favor of giving journalist Roxanna Saberi the chance to defend herself on her appeal of her conviction for spying. Pity you didn&#8217;t let her present a defense in open court from the start. But that would have just shown off that the charges were bogus and your &#8220;justice&#8221; system isn&#8217;t weighted in favor of, well, justice.<\/p>\n<p>Or try this argument: it would have been cheaper to have one good trial than one bad one and one good one. Better yet, stop charging people with crimes simply because they don&#8217;t agree with you. Imagine all the money you&#8217;d save on trials and prisons. It might also go a long way to getting the rest of the world to take you seriously without having to resort to North Korean-like tactics of using a nuclear threat to get attention.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really kind of you to come out in favor of giving journalist Roxanna Saberi the chance to defend herself on her appeal of her conviction for spying. Pity you didn&#8217;t let her present a defense in open court from the start. But that would have just shown off that the charges were bogus and your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}