{"id":17717,"date":"2014-04-24T06:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=17717"},"modified":"2014-04-24T06:44:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:44:14","slug":"edward-snowden-installed-as-university-of-glasgow-rector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-installed-as-university-of-glasgow-rector.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden installed as University of Glasgow rector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    London  Former National Security Agency contractor    Edward Snowden has been installed as the official    representative of students at the University of Glasgow.  <\/p>\n<p>    Snowden told the ceremony by video link that, in the office, he    would follow the idea that if we believe in something we    should stand up for it.  <\/p>\n<p>    He said in a democracy, people have a right to know the    policies of their government.  <\/p>\n<p>    Snowden leaked documents disclosing details of U.S. spies    surveillance of the Internet and telephone communications. He    has been granted asylum in Russia.  <\/p>\n<p>    He was elected rector  the students representative to    university management  out of a field of four candidates in    February.  <\/p>\n<p>    Snowden is unlikely to visit Glasgow, however. Britain has an    extradition treaty with the U.S., where he is wanted on    criminal charges.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140423\/NATION\/304230069\/1020\/rss09\/RK=0\/RS=CFfKCBXIV6ix4w0Z471tcuWxQkw-\" title=\"Edward Snowden installed as University of Glasgow rector\">Edward Snowden installed as University of Glasgow rector<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> London Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has been installed as the official representative of students at the University of Glasgow. Snowden told the ceremony by video link that, in the office, he would follow the idea that if we believe in something we should stand up for it. He said in a democracy, people have a right to know the policies of their government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}