{"id":2967,"date":"2006-08-15T21:56:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T01:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/08\/15\/careful-what-you-wish-for-2\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T21:56:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T01:56:20","slug":"careful-what-you-wish-for-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/08\/15\/careful-what-you-wish-for-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful What You Wish For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8729'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"77\">\n<p align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/iranb.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"274\" align=\"left\">Thought wacky, nuke-hyping, Israel-threatening<br \/>\n          Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn[t annoying enough? Well,<br \/>\n          now he has a blog. <\/p>\n<p>State-run TV announced the blog&#8217;s launch Sunday, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahmadinejad.ir\">www.ahmadinejad.ir<\/a> &#8211; which<br \/>\nis written in Persian, but translated into English, French and Arabic &#8211; almost<br \/>\nimmediately crashed due to a huge volume of traffic. <\/p>\n<p>In his first entry, Ahmadinejad wrote about his childhood, the country&#x2019;s Islamic<br \/>\nrevolution and the Iran-Iraq war, Aljazeera.net reported. <\/p>\n<p>And like all good blogs, Ahmadinejad&#8217;s asks readers to participate in a scientific,<br \/>\nobjective online poll: &quot;Do you think the United States and Israel are pulling<br \/>\nthe trigger for another world war?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The entry was 2,000 words long, but Ahmadinejad apparently has learned the lesson<br \/>\nall good bloggers must: At the end he wrote, &quot;From now onwards, I will try to<br \/>\nmake it shorter and simpler.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  Ironically, Iranian authorities currently are stepping up arrests<br \/>\n                and pressure<br \/>\n    on popular bloggers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/international\/view.bg?articleid=152864\">Boston Herald<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Those of us trying to push a blogger into the White<br \/>\n          House should take note, although there is a world of difference between<br \/>\n          a blogger who gets elected to office and an office-holder who starts<br \/>\n          a blog. On the other hand, Bush wouldn&#8217;t be seen within a light-year<br \/>\n          of a blog, or a blogger&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought wacky, nuke-hyping, Israel-threatening Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn[t annoying enough? Well, now he has a blog. State-run TV announced the blog&#8217;s launch Sunday, but www.ahmadinejad.ir &#8211; which is written in Persian, but translated into English, French and Arabic &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/08\/15\/careful-what-you-wish-for-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}