{"id":2545,"date":"2002-11-04T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2002-11-03T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/04\/stupidity-watch\/"},"modified":"2002-11-04T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2002-11-03T18:31:10","slug":"stupidity-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200211\/stupidity-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidity watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/gmdebate\/Story\/0,2763,822141,00.html\">Zambia slams door shut on GM relief food<\/a><br \/><b>Synopsis:<\/b> Zambians face starvation. US is offering them Genetically modified food, which Americans have themselves eaten for years with no ill-effects.<br \/>Zambia has rejected this food, because it <i>may<\/i> cause as yet unknown harm to its citizens&#8217; health. <br \/>Well at least they will die healthy. <br \/>Greenpeace is applauding Zambia&#8217;s leaders for standing up to US pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia slams door shut on GM relief foodSynopsis: Zambians face starvation. US is offering them Genetically modified food, which Americans have themselves eaten for years with no ill-effects.Zambia has rejected this food, because it may cause as yet unknown harm to its citizens&#8217; health. Well at least they will die healthy. Greenpeace is applauding Zambia&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}