{"id":991,"date":"2006-12-03T02:40:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T18:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2007-07-08T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T08:47:15","slug":"987-of-satire-at-istana-seri-menanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"[987] Of satire at Istana Seri Menanti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2 AM on a Sunday. I just got back from a dinner event at Istana Seri Menanti.<\/p>\n<p>To those that organized the sketch, I salute thee. It takes courage to stage it in front of the King and the Chief Minister of Negeri Sembilan. Thanks goodness that we still have some freedom of expression in this country, despite daily erosion.<\/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\/sketchActorsIstanaSeriMenanti.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If this is the kind of quality play held at every annual MCOBA dinner, I wouldn&#8217;t mind attending the next edition. And the next too. Great job guys.<\/p>\n<p>And, haha, thanks to Project Sayong for sponsoring my ticket. But I wonder, would this play hurt the project? LOL!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> \t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> \t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; Nik Nazmi <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niknazmi.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/390\">describes the play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2 AM on a Sunday. I just got back from a dinner event at Istana Seri Menanti. To those that organized the sketch, I salute thee. It takes courage to stage it in front of the King and the Chief Minister of Negeri Sembilan. Thanks goodness that we still have some freedom of expression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,17,8,31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-personal","category-photography","category-politics-government","category-pop-culture","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}