{"id":409,"date":"2009-06-16T04:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T08:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2009-06-16T04:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T08:15:12","slug":"the-limits-of-irany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Irany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\"><strong>Update (6\/20\/2009):<\/strong><\/font> If you agree about Mahmoud deserving his vacation, please read and sign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.jussieu.fr\/%7Edanos\/wimv.pdf\">this petition<\/a> (courtesy of Elham Kashefi).  I have no doubt that if enough <em>Shtetl-Optimized<\/em> readers sign, it will force the ayatollahs to reconsider.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=25\">my pal Mahmoud<\/a>\u00a0in years, but some mutual friends told me that he&#8217;s been pretty stressed about his job lately. \u00a0They said you&#8217;re supposed to turn your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/\">blog&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/items\/90187929_irans-green-revolution.htm\">background<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/\">green<\/a>\u00a0if you agree with some concerned folks who&#8217;ve been marching around Tehran encouraging him to take a much-needed breather.<\/p>\n<p>This was a tough call for me. \u00a0On the one hand, the voters clearly want Mahmoud at his desk by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2009\/06\/stealing-iranian-election.html\">spectacular<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2009\/06\/13\/iran\/\">margins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_O6yyBo1yA_o\/SjYVpylK4qI\/AAAAAAAAABs\/yOOVAMd9XsY\/s400\/iranb4.PNG\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 241px\" alt=\"undefined\" title=\"undefined\" width=\"400\" align=\"middle\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it seemed hypocritical for me to deny a close friend his vacation, given how much procrastinating I&#8217;ve been doing myself lately. \u00a0For example, I&#8217;ve barely been blogging&#8212;and when I have, it&#8217;s often just bargain-basement fare you could get anywhere else on the Internet! \u00a0Ultimately, then, I decided I <em>had<\/em> to go green out of a sort of Kantian blogegorical imperative&#8212;regardless of all the complex ways my editing a WordPress stylesheet might reverberate through history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update (6\/20\/2009): If you agree about Mahmoud deserving his vacation, please read and sign this petition (courtesy of Elham Kashefi). I have no doubt that if enough Shtetl-Optimized readers sign, it will force the ayatollahs to reconsider. I haven&#8217;t heard from\u00a0my pal Mahmoud\u00a0in years, but some mutual friends told me that he&#8217;s been pretty stressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mahmoud","category-procrastination"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}