{"id":328,"date":"2005-04-13T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=328"},"modified":"2005-04-13T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:42:00","slug":"peace-blog-fill-nepali-news-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/13\/peace-blog-fill-nepali-news-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Blog Fill Nepali News Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--111341201856883394--><\/p>\n<p>The Nepali king and military have placed tight restrictions on what can be printed and broadcast there, following the &#8220;royal coup&#8221; of February 1st.  I assume the main media websites are similarly banned from reporting on what is really happening there.  Friends and colleagues I&#8217;m working with there send conflicting reports by email and it&#8217;s hard to tell if they feel safe to speak freely.  <\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that at least one blog is filling the information gap.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.com.np\">United We Blog &#8230;for a Peaceful and Democratic<\/a> Nepal showed up in Google News this week.  It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.com.np\/index.php?p=427\">straightest scoop<\/a> I&#8217;ve seen from there.  At least it&#8217;s the most detailed.  This is powerful media in dangerous times.  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, my friends who are organizing the <a href=\"http:\/\/nainn.blogspot.com\">Nepal Appreciative Inquiry National Network<\/a> continue to work in the direction of our second national conference, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/wiki\/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTech\">OpenSpaceTech<\/a>, later this year.  I facilitated last year&#8217;s conference and am waiting on meetings this month about this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nepali king and military have placed tight restrictions on what can be printed and broadcast there, following the &#8220;royal coup&#8221; of February 1st. I assume the main media websites are similarly banned from reporting on what is really happening there. Friends and colleagues I&#8217;m working with there send conflicting reports by email and it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/13\/peace-blog-fill-nepali-news-gap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peace Blog Fill Nepali News Gap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}