{"id":29189,"date":"2017-01-17T14:38:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29189"},"modified":"2017-01-17T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:50:54","slug":"manning-to-go-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/manning-to-go-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Manning to go free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d do it. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/01\/17\/obama-commutes-sentence-chelsea-manning\/96678814\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama just commuted<\/a> Chelsea Manning&#8217;s sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Manning is set to go free on May 17. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/17\/obama-commutes-chelsea-mannings-sentence-for-leaking-army-documents.html\" target=\"_blank\">another link<\/a> in case the one in the first paragraph gives you trouble, as it&#8217;s momentarily giving me.)<\/p>\n<p>This is a commutation, not a pardon. The sentence is cut short, but Manning remains a convicted criminal with all the loss of rights and other problems and stigmas that entails. But this is what she&#8217;d asked for, the best she&#8217;d hoped for.<\/p>\n<p>Hm. Now I wonder if Assange will agree to that extradition to the U.S.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d do it. But Obama just commuted Chelsea Manning&#8217;s sentence. Manning is set to go free on May 17. Here&#8217;s another link in case the one in the first paragraph gives you trouble, as it&#8217;s momentarily giving me.) This is a commutation, not a pardon. The sentence is cut short, but Manning remains a convicted criminal with all the loss of rights and other problems and stigmas that entails. But this is what she&#8217;d asked for, the best she&#8217;d hoped for. Hm. Now I wonder if Assange will agree to that extradition to the U.S.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-government","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29189"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29195,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189\/revisions\/29195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}