{"id":17721,"date":"2014-04-24T06:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=17721"},"modified":"2014-04-24T06:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:44:31","slug":"snowden-installed-as-university-of-glasgow-rector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/snowden-installed-as-university-of-glasgow-rector.php","title":{"rendered":"Snowden Installed as University of Glasgow Rector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    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>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/snowden-installed-university-glasgow-rector-23440772\/RK=0\/RS=NCqbt4DAW_JStACOjIjXch_CWq8-\" title=\"Snowden Installed as University of Glasgow Rector\">Snowden Installed as University of Glasgow Rector<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has been installed as the official representative of students at the University of Glasgow. <\/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-17721","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\/17721"}],"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=17721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}