{"id":1278,"date":"2012-05-11T19:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2012-05-11T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T20:02:02","slug":"ahmad-lotfi-ashtiani-launches-internet-cartoon-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/ahmad-lotfi-ashtiani-launches-internet-cartoon-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani launches internet cartoon competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Emergency extra blog post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/iran-blog\/gallery\/2012\/may\/10\/cartoonists-mahmoud-shokraye-conviction-in-pictures?newsfeed=true#\/?picture=389945150&#038;index=7\">this<\/a> in the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian MP, Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, took offence to a cartoon by Mahmoud Shokraye. The cartoonist was then sentenced to 25 lashes for the crime. Ashtiani has therefore, in playing with the serpents tail, effectively challenged the global internet to produce as foul a portrait as possible. <\/p>\n<p>Here is my humble offering.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-9k3Ja-ZOC5s\/T61hsAXmrkI\/AAAAAAAABmc\/UFZdYoMaL0A\/s800\/AhmadLotfiAshtiani.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/images\/signature.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"123\" border=\"0px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency extra blog post. I just read this in the Guardian. Iranian MP, Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, took offence to a cartoon by Mahmoud Shokraye. The cartoonist was then sentenced to 25 lashes for the crime. Ashtiani has therefore, in playing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/ahmad-lotfi-ashtiani-launches-internet-cartoon-competition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[223,142,19],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searing-political-satire","tag-cartoons","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}