{"id":955,"date":"2004-12-16T12:31:24","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T20:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/12\/backing_off\/"},"modified":"2004-12-16T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T20:31:24","slug":"backing_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/12\/backing_off.html","title":{"rendered":"BACKING OFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate <A\nclass=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20041101.shtml#90433\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Shirin Ebadi had sued<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> the U.S.<br \/>\nTreasury Department for denying her right to free speech by ruling that she could not publish her<br \/>\nmemoir in this country, the government has backed off. It has now&nbsp;<A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/0,,SB110316662260801803-IJjeoNolaF3mpyuanmHbq\nuCm4,00.html\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>dropped<br \/>\nrestrictions<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> on writers from Cuba, Iran and Sudan publishing original works<br \/>\nin the U.S.,<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> the WSJ reported today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi had sued the U.S. Treasury Department for denying her right to free speech by ruling that she could not publish her memoir in this country, the government has backed off. It has now&nbsp;dropped restrictions on writers from Cuba, Iran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}