{"id":2304,"date":"2007-05-26T23:13:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T06:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/26\/meanwhile-in-tajikistan\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T23:13:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T06:13:17","slug":"meanwhile-in-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/26\/meanwhile-in-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you agree or disagree with Tajikistan President Emomalii Rahmon&#8217;s recent decisions to<\/p>\n<p>(a) ban the ending &#8220;ic&#8221; to people&#8217;s names, which indeed forced Rahmon to change his name from Rahmonic.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an attempt to assert themselves from the shadow of Mother Russia.<br \/>\n(b) Ending elaborate end-of-school year parties<\/p>\n<p>(c) limiting the number of people who can attend a wedding to 150 people<\/p>\n<p>(d) limiting the number of people who can attend a funeral to 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>(e) limiting the number of people who can attend a circumcision to 60 people.<\/p>\n<p>There is a slippery slope argument to made here.\u00c2\u00a0 First you limit the number of people attending a circumcision , and the next thing you know you are cloning a sub-strata of humans for the purpose of harvesting organs.\u00c2\u00a0 Think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you agree or disagree with Tajikistan President Emomalii Rahmon&#8217;s recent decisions to (a) ban the ending &#8220;ic&#8221; to people&#8217;s names, which indeed forced Rahmon to change his name from Rahmonic.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an attempt to assert themselves from the shadow of Mother Russia. (b) Ending elaborate end-of-school year parties (c) limiting the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}