{"id":6288,"date":"2013-02-07T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2013-02-07T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T04:21:55","slug":"we-are-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/02\/07\/we-are-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"We are the World&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently discovered that DPRK&#8217;s last semi-hilarious attempt at getting a front slot on Western news (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3I25NUPmIXA\">a cheesy video<\/a> depicting the fiery destruction of NYC by a proud North Korean-made nuclear missile) had been mainly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-21351051\">lifted from a US videogame<\/a>&#8230; Some poor official propaganda video editor is probably getting a free trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/north-koreas-prison-camps-on-google-maps\">Bukchang gulag<\/a> for that one.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not what I find most noteworthy in that video.<\/p>\n<p>The soundtrack to that heartwarming tale of the victorious rise of the Juche over the pulverised radioactive ashes of imperialist Western children is, I jest not, a cheap instrumental synth version of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ezzxDk_vvXA\">We are the World<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If there ever was a less subtle way to say &#8220;Give us our annual dose of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/38north.org\/2012\/08\/yoonvideo081312\/\">humanitarian aid<\/a>&#8216; <em>now<\/em> or we will throw a tantrum until you do&#8221;, I don&#8217;t know what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently discovered that DPRK&#8217;s last semi-hilarious attempt at getting a front slot on Western news (a cheesy video depicting the fiery destruction of NYC by a proud North Korean-made nuclear missile) had been mainly lifted from a US videogame&#8230; Some poor official propaganda video editor is probably getting a free trip to Bukchang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ranting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}