{"id":5665,"date":"2011-12-07T18:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2011-12-07T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:32:57","slug":"pardon-alan-turing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/pardon-alan-turing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon Alan Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An online petition calling for the government to posthumously pardon Alan Turing and quash his conviction for gross indecency has been launched.<\/p>\n<p>The gay computer pioneer was convicted of the offence in 1952, when homosexual acts were illegal in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, he died from cyanide poisoning, which an inquest ruled was suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk\/petitions\/23526\">Here&#8217;s the petition<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online petition calling for the government to posthumously pardon Alan Turing and quash his conviction for gross indecency has been launched. The gay computer pioneer was convicted of the offence in 1952, when homosexual acts were illegal in the UK. Two years later, he died from cyanide poisoning, which an inquest ruled was suicide. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/pardon-alan-turing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pardon Alan Turing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[230],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1tn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}