{"id":908,"date":"2006-10-12T13:32:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T05:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2006-10-12T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T13:22:10","slug":"906-of-yesterdays-dap-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"[906] Of yesterday&#8217;s DAP forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a DAP forum yesterday. I came earlier than most people and sat in the third row.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t want to comment on it but I have a picture that I wanted to share.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams\" title=\"Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/limKitSiangDapForum20061012.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Nope. There&#8217;s no mistake in the photo. The focus is intentional. This is how I felt after the forum started to drag on and on with odd questions in form of speeches. Somehow, some people have trouble differentiating between questions and statements. I went straight to bed immediately after I reached home.<\/p>\n<p>While I chose photography to express myself, <a href=\"http:\/\/patrickteoh.blogspot.com\/\">Patrick Teoh<\/a> chose a more immediate media to express his frustration at the flow of the forum in a very frank manner.<\/p>\n<p>I came to the forum because of two reasons. One was to return all materials a project \u2014 that I was in \u2014 had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niknazmi.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/331\">borrowed from a friend<\/a>; second, just curious why on earth we want to set Pak Lah free.<\/p>\n<p>I of course came with a typical libertarian mindset &#8211; I want to be free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a DAP forum yesterday. I came earlier than most people and sat in the third row. I really don&#8217;t want to comment on it but I have a picture that I wanted to share. Nope. There&#8217;s no mistake in the photo. The focus is intentional. This is how I felt after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-photography","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}