{"id":2574,"date":"2010-02-22T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-22T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:07:50","slug":"sting-in-the-pay-of-tyranical-uzbek-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sting-in-the-pay-of-tyranical-uzbek-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"This Job Calls for the Lute: Sting in the Pay of Tyranical Uzbek Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear this is not an <em>Onion<\/em> piece, nor am I making it up. A must-read for every <strong>Sting<\/strong>-questioning rock fan! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/lostinshowbiz\/2010\/feb\/22\/sting-uzbekistan\" target=_blank>Click here to check it out!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ap4pNs91BZ0]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am well aware of the Uzbek president&#8217;s appalling reputation in the field of human rights as well as the environment. I made the decision to play there in spite of that. I have come to believe that cultural boycotts are not only pointless gestures, they are counter-productive, where proscribed states are further robbed of the open commerce of ideas and art and as a result become even more closed, paranoid and insular.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/featured-rth-poll-lemgwith-which-sting\"><em>Previously.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear this is not an Onion piece, nor am I making it up. A must-read for every Sting-questioning rock fan! Click here to check it out! ap4pNs91BZ0] &#8220;I am well aware of the Uzbek president&#8217;s appalling reputation in the field of human rights as well as the environment. I made the decision to play <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sting-in-the-pay-of-tyranical-uzbek-regime\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}