{"id":925,"date":"2007-06-14T03:38:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T09:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/14\/digging-for-that-silver-lining\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:42:09","slug":"digging-for-that-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Digging For That Silver Lining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, Iran <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/meast\/06\/13\/iran.porn.ap\/\">wants to start executing people<\/a> involved in the pr0n industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that &#8220;producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corruptors of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The term, &#8220;corruptor of the world&#8221; is taken from the Quran, the Muslims&#8217; holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual&#8217;s criminal offenses. Under Iran&#8217;s Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;main elements&#8221; refered to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making a pornographic video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t care a whole lot for pr0n; obviously this is a bit much.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I could almost justify it if they&#8217;d include the producers of\u00a0those gawdawful &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/shows.do?action=detail&#038;showId=173253\">disaster pr0n&#8221; specials on the History Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d call it about square then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, Iran wants to start executing people involved in the pr0n industry. With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that &#8220;producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}