{"id":118,"date":"2007-04-04T13:50:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2007-04-04T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T13:50:23","slug":"yet-another-step-closer-to-big-brother-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/yet-another-step-closer-to-big-brother-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another step closer to Big Brother reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that only someone completely devoid of a sense of irony could think of, Home Secretary John Reid has ordered that some of Britain&#8217;s 4 million (count &#8217;em) CCTV cameras also be equipped with the power of speech.  Sound like 1984?  Check out this picture that&#8217;s been floating around the blogosphere of all the cameras around George Orwell&#8217;s former residence.  Also, there is no way that anyone could write this story up better than &#8220;these guys&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/default.aspx?article=38718\">http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/default.aspx?article=38718<\/a> at &#8220;The Inquirer,&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\">http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net<\/a> check it out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/orwellcameras.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that only someone completely devoid of a sense of irony could think of, Home Secretary John Reid has ordered that some of Britain&#8217;s 4 million (count &#8217;em) CCTV cameras also be equipped with the power of speech. Sound like 1984? Check out this picture that&#8217;s been floating around the blogosphere of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}