{"id":15915,"date":"2011-07-04T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2011-07-04T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T18:39:17","slug":"monckton-talks-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2011\/monckton-talks-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Monckton talks cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a post dated July 5, I learn that some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/sceptics-nazi-jibe-ends-his-lectures-20110704-1gz4r.html\">Monckton&#8217;s speeches have been cancelled<\/a>.  Specifically those in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Windsor, Australia.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the article &#8220;[Monckton] accused the people who cancelled the speaking events of &#8221;kicking democracy&#8221;.  But as far as I can tell, a group of private clubs changed their mind about hosting a lecture after the speaker made his presence so embarrassing no one wants to connect themselves to him. Seems to me private clubs deciding who to invite and who to dis-invite is entirely consistent with democratic principles.  <\/p>\n<p>To Americans: Happy Independence Day. We&#8217;re eating ribs, potato salad, wine, watermelon, coleslaw, baked beans and fruit pops!<br \/>\n<Img src=\"http:\/\/gwbweb.wustl.edu\/sites\/DevPractice\/Pictures\/Human%20Trafficking\/us-flag.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a post dated July 5, I learn that some of Monckton&#8217;s speeches have been cancelled. Specifically those in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Windsor, Australia. According to the article &#8220;[Monckton] accused the people who cancelled the speaking events of &#8221;kicking democracy&#8221;. But as far as I can tell, a group of private clubs changed their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2011\/monckton-talks-cancelled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monckton talks cancelled<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[305],"class_list":["post-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-monckton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}