{"id":81,"date":"2008-03-28T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2010-11-25T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:07:56","slug":"ministry-of-culture-bans-people-named-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/ministry-of-culture-bans-people-named-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ministry of Culture Bans People Named Porn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.notthenation.com\/files\/25482170_571e37dd21_m%5B1%5D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 173px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notthenation.com\/files\/25482170_571e37dd21_m%5B1%5D.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BANGKOK &#8211; The Ministry of Culture announced today that it would impose a new ban on people named Porn, citing the name\u2019s corrosive effect on Thai society and the damage it causes to the kingdom\u2019s reputation abroad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha ha ha.<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notthenation.com\/\">NotTheNation<\/a> keeps this up, they could soon join the ranks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\">The Onion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK &#8211; The Ministry of Culture announced today that it would impose a new ban on people named Porn, citing the name\u2019s corrosive effect on Thai society and the damage it causes to the kingdom\u2019s reputation abroad. 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