{"id":28113,"date":"2014-12-17T01:42:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T06:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=28113"},"modified":"2014-12-17T01:42:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T06:42:05","slug":"edward-snowden-lupe-fiasco-and-more-wish-chelsea-manning-a-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-lupe-fiasco-and-more-wish-chelsea-manning-a-happy-birthday.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden, Lupe Fiasco and More Wish Chelsea Manning a Happy Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>TIME U.S. espionage      Edward Snowden, Lupe Fiasco and More Wish Chelsea Manning a    Happy Birthday  This  undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Chelsea Manning  wearing a wig and lipstick. U.S.  Army\/AP      Michael Stipe called her a \"patriot\"    <\/p>\n<p>    Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier who turned over    hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to    WikiLeaks and serving a 35-year prison sentence, turns 27 on    Wednesday. To celebrate, a diverse assortment of admirers, from    Edward Snowden to rapper Lupe Fiasco, have sent her best wishes    that have been published by the Guardian.  <\/p>\n<p>    I thank you now and forever for your extraordinary act of    service and I am sorry that it has come with such an    unbelievable personal cost, Snowden wrote. You have inspired    an angry public to demand a government that is accountable for    its perpetration of torture and other war crimes, for the true    costs of its wars, and for conspiring in corruption around the    world.  <\/p>\n<p>    Michael Stipe, the former frontman for the band R.E.M., sent    her a card with a rose on it and a handwritten note inside and    called her a patriot. Fiasco celebrated with an homage to the    cover of Kanye Wests album My Beautiful Dark Twisted    Fantasy, using Mannings face in the center of the cover    art instead of Wests. She encapsulates the antiheroes in    society  sitting up in the heights of mythology,    simultaneously demonised and forgiven, Fiasco wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>    The letters and cards were sent to Fort Leavenworth military    prison in Kansas, where Manning is currently being held. Her    first chance for parole comes in 2021.  <\/p>\n<p>    [The    Guardian]  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3636498\/edward-snowden-terry-gilliam-lupe-fiasco-chelsea-manning-happy-birthday\" title=\"Edward Snowden, Lupe Fiasco and More Wish Chelsea Manning a Happy Birthday\">Edward Snowden, Lupe Fiasco and More Wish Chelsea Manning a Happy Birthday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> TIME U.S. espionage Edward Snowden, Lupe Fiasco and More Wish Chelsea Manning a Happy Birthday This undated photo provided by the U.S<\/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-28113","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\/28113"}],"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=28113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}