{"id":29388,"date":"2015-02-24T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/oscars-2015-edward-snowden-responds-to-treason-joke.php"},"modified":"2015-02-24T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:42:03","slug":"oscars-2015-edward-snowden-responds-to-treason-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/oscars-2015-edward-snowden-responds-to-treason-joke.php","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2015: Edward Snowden Responds to &#8216;Treason&#8217; Joke &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>World News Videos | US News VideosCopy              <\/p>\n<p>    Edward Snowden can take a joke.  <\/p>\n<p>    The star of the Oscar-winning documentary \"Citizenfour\" was not    able to attend the glitzy bash on Sunday \"for some treason,\"    host Neil Patrick Harris quipped    after the filmmakers thanked the whistleblower for his courage.  <\/p>\n<p>    Snowden has been living in Russia for more than a year after he was    granted asylum. He is wanted in the United States under the    federal Espionage Act for revealing classified National Security    Agency information, meaning a return to the United States    would likely be out of the question unless he wanted to    surrender.  <\/p>\n<p>    In a Reddit Ask Me Anything interview with the    team behind \"Citizenfour,\" Snowden said he \"laughed at NPH.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    \"I don't think it was meant as a political statement, but even    if it was, that's not so bad,\" Snowden said of the Oscar host's    clever play on words. \"My perspective is if you're not willing    to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't    care enough.\"  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/oscars-2015-edward-snowden-responds-treason-joke\/story?id=29168151\" title=\"Oscars 2015: Edward Snowden Responds to 'Treason' Joke ...\">Oscars 2015: Edward Snowden Responds to 'Treason' Joke ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> World News Videos | US News VideosCopy Edward Snowden can take a joke. The star of the Oscar-winning documentary \"Citizenfour\" was not able to attend the glitzy bash on Sunday \"for some treason,\" host Neil Patrick Harris quipped after the filmmakers thanked the whistleblower for his courage<\/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-29388","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\/29388"}],"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=29388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}