{"id":942,"date":"2008-10-23T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=942"},"modified":"2009-04-05T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T14:40:35","slug":"more-news-like-this-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2008\/10\/23\/more-news-like-this-please\/","title":{"rendered":"More news like this, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/7686621.stm\">Ex-king of Nepal will have his electricity cut if he doesn&#8217;t pay his bills<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\">\n<p>\nNepal&#8217;s former royals must pay unpaid bills of more than $1m within 15 days or power to their homes could be cut off, the state utility company says.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) says the former royals must pay arrears dating back several years for power to 22 palaces and bungalows.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is a further blow to a family which ruled for centuries before the monarchy was abolished in May.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nChopping off their heads is a powerful tradition for dealing with superfluous monarchs it&#8217;s true, but you have to admire the utter and complete humiliation the Nepalese have inflicted here, to be cut off like the meanest commoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-king of Nepal will have his electricity cut if he doesn&#8217;t pay his bills: Nepal&#8217;s former royals must pay unpaid bills of more than $1m within 15 days or power to their homes could be cut off, the state utility company says. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) says the former royals must pay arrears dating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,3],"tags":[559],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-life-under-capitalism","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}