{"id":591,"date":"2005-08-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=591"},"modified":"2006-10-08T11:59:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T11:59:22","slug":"609-of-flags-flags-and-more-flags-else-photoblog-part-whatever-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"[589] Of flags, flags and more flags (else, photoblog part whatever + 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fly the flag&#8221; campaign (or something like that) has been going on for weeks now. However, certain Malaysian minister has expressed disappointment &#8211; there seems to be lack of support for the drive from the public.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about cold shoulders but I saw a residential area wrapped with flags about a week ago:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/flagMerdeka.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Whatever it is, I&#8217;m sure he will be happy with all those flags. And I&#8217;m sure, some of us would be happier if <a href=\"http:\/\/politics101malaysia.blogsome.com\/2005\/08\/29\/get-real-modelling-unpatriotic-meh\/\">a model had gone naked<\/a> instead draped in <em>Jalur Gemilang<\/em>. I know I do.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. Seven more hours to the 48th anniversery of a free Malaya. Seven hours <em>and<\/em> 17 days to 42 years of the Malaysian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Or.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hai. Tujuh jam lagi untuk ulangtahun ke-48 Malaya yang merdeka. Tujuh jam dan 17 hari lagi untuk menyambut harijadi ke-42 Persekutuan Malaysia .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Goddamn, I took way too much time to translate that into Malay. If anybody could od any better, be my guest.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; finally, Google Adsense. It&#8217;s on the left side of the screen, below all the links and other nonsense. I know it&#8217;s not a strategic place to have the ads but hey, I&#8217;ll think of something when I&#8217;m ready to properly update my template.<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; alright, I&#8217;ve moved it way down. Way down. I&#8217;m making it as unintrusive as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fly the flag&#8221; campaign (or something like that) has been going on for weeks now. However, certain Malaysian minister has expressed disappointment &#8211; there seems to be lack of support for the drive from the public. I don&#8217;t know about cold shoulders but I saw a residential area wrapped with flags about a week ago: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-photography","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}