{"id":35830,"date":"2013-04-16T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35830"},"modified":"2013-04-16T06:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:53:14","slug":"that-rikshaw-has-left-the-pagoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35830","title":{"rendered":"That Rikshaw Has Left The Pagoda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Kim Jong-Un, Head Community Organizer, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, American with no real portfolio<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Anticlimax<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Kim,<\/p>\n<p>Seeing this statement&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Threatening that it would not give any advance notice before attacking South Korea, the North warned: &#8220;Our retaliatory action will start without any notice from now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;is just a little incongruous, coming on the heels of a weeks-long PR blitz designed to get maximum attention from western media.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>(CULTURAL SENSITIVITY NOTE: \u00a0I know that neither Rikshaws nor Pagodas are Korean. \u00a0But I figured it&#8217;d work better than typing &#8220;<em>\uadf8 \uae30\ucc28\uac00 \uc5ed\uc744 \ucd9c\ubc1c<\/em>&#8220;. \u00a0Am I right, or am I right?)<\/p>\n<p>(TYPOGRAPHY NOTE: \u00a0Is anyone but me amazed that one can actually italicize Hangul characters?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Kim Jong-Un, Head Community Organizer, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea From: Mitch Berg, American with no real portfolio Re: \u00a0Anticlimax Chairman Kim, Seeing this statement&#8230;: Threatening that it would not give any advance notice before attacking South Korea, the North warned: &#8220;Our retaliatory action will start without any notice from now.&#8221; &#8230;is just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35832,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35830\/revisions\/35832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}