{"id":699,"date":"2005-12-29T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=699"},"modified":"2006-10-08T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T16:18:03","slug":"697-of-us-embassy-closes-after-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"[697] Of U.S. embassy closes after threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=2005-12-30T053842Z_01_ROB020072_RTRUKOC_0_US-MALAYSIA-USA-EMBASSY.xml&#038;archived=False\">Reuters reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. embassy in Kuala Lumpur was closed on Friday due to a security threat, a spokeswoman in the Malaysian capital said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got some information indicating there was a threat to the embassy and decided to close at 11.40 (22:40 EST) this morning,&#8221; Kathryn Taylor said. &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid I can&#8217;t be more specific.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>One: another stupid braindead you-know-who zealot(s) is\/are trying to spread his\/her\/their ideology of hate and fear to Malaysia <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Malaysia\">(tag)<\/a>, while in the process, disturbing the peace. Worse, making life harder for the people that they claim to &#8220;fight&#8221; for.<\/p>\n<p>Or: The people at the US embassy just wanted to get an extra day for themselves. Hey, if Monday is a holiday, it doesn&#8217;t hurt to declare Friday as a day off too. Four-day weekend dude.<\/p>\n<p>Pick one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports: The U.S. embassy in Kuala Lumpur was closed on Friday due to a security threat, a spokeswoman in the Malaysian capital said. &#8220;We got some information indicating there was a threat to the embassy and decided to close at 11.40 (22:40 EST) this morning,&#8221; Kathryn Taylor said. &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid I can&#8217;t be more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflict-disaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}