{"id":8945,"date":"2011-08-27T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T10:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2011-10-01T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T04:57:31","slug":"2418-clarification-about-me-and-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=8945","title":{"rendered":"[2418] Clarification about me and IDEAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday, the Sun published a report on food stamp. They interviewed me for that report. The authors of the report\u00a0quoted me as &#8220;a member of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and is responsible for its economic studies arm.&#8221;<a name=\"2418noteback1\"><\/a><a href=\"#2418note1\"><sup><small>[1]<\/small><\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I spoke to one of the authors on behalf of IDEAS, I would like to clarify that I am not responsible for the &#8220;economic studies arm&#8221; of the institute.<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/center><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a name=\"2418note1\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a name=\"2418note1\"><\/a><a href=\"#2418noteback1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> \u2014 Hafiz Noor Shams, a member of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and is responsible for its economic studies arm, said: \u201dFood stamps are not the best idea, but not the worst either. It is a short-term solution to an immediate need.\u201d\u009d [Pauline Wong. Michelle Chun. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaily.my\/news\/118643\">Experts: Food stamps only &#8216;short-term solution&#8217;<\/a>. <em>The Sun<\/em>. August 22 2011]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday, the Sun published a report on food stamp. They interviewed me for that report. The authors of the report\u00a0quoted me as &#8220;a member of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and is responsible for its economic studies arm.&#8221;[1] While I spoke to one of the authors on behalf of IDEAS, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[1363,1396],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-personal","tag-institute-for-democracy-and-economic-affairs","tag-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}