{"id":243,"date":"2006-12-21T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=243"},"modified":"2006-12-21T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T21:25:00","slug":"a-death-that-makes-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/a-death-that-makes-me-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"A death that makes me happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0b\/Saparmurat_Niyazov_9may2005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0b\/Saparmurat_Niyazov_9may2005.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Today it was announced that T\u00fcrkmenba?y, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saparmurat_Niyazov\">Saparmyrat Ata\u00fdewi\u00e7 Ny\u00fdazow<\/a>, the dictator of Turkmenistan, had died.  Although I don&#8217;t normally rejoice in the death of other people, I sincerely think this is a man that Turkmenistan and the world will do better without.  Some of his more unusual actions according to Wikipedia included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ordering that physicians swear an oath to him instead of the Hippocratic Oath\n<li>decreeing that teachers who wished to avoid being put on the lowest grade of pay or even sacked, would have to write a newspaper article praising T\u00fcrkmenba?y and have it published in one of the two newspapers of the country\n<li>changing the Turkmen word for bread to that of his late mother\n<li>ordering the closure of all hospitals outside A?gabat, saying that if people were ill, they could come to the capital\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it was announced that T\u00fcrkmenba?y, Saparmyrat Ata\u00fdewi\u00e7 Ny\u00fdazow, the dictator of Turkmenistan, had died. Although I don&#8217;t normally rejoice in the death of other people, I sincerely think this is a man that Turkmenistan and the world will do better without. Some of his more unusual actions according to Wikipedia included: ordering that physicians swear an oath to him instead of the Hippocratic Oath decreeing that teachers who wished to avoid being put on the lowest grade of pay or even sacked, would have to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}