{"id":1897,"date":"2010-12-18T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T10:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2010-12-19T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T12:06:33","slug":"assange%e2%80%99s-personal-dating-profile-%e2%80%98leaked%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/technology-in-the-middle-east\/middle-east-social-media-news-views-analysis\/assange%e2%80%99s-personal-dating-profile-%e2%80%98leaked%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange\u2019s Personal Dating Profile \u2018leaked\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Julian-Assanges-dating-pro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1898\" title=\"Julian-Assange's-dating-pro\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Julian-Assanges-dating-pro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a bitter if somewhat sweet bout of irony the online dating  profile of Julian Assange, the man behind the explosion of Wikileaks and  their Cablegate revelations, has been posted online.<\/p>\n<p>Found online by an American gossip magazine, it contains a cringe-worthy selection of his writings<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WARNING: Want a regular, down to earth guy? Keep moving. I am not the droid you\u2019re looking for\u2026 I am DANGER, ACHTUNG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/world\/americas\/article2842583.ece\" target=\"_blank\">reports <\/a>that he<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>says that he likes Russian books, movies and music \u2013 but  never Russian food. He spends his time thinking about \u201cchanging the  world\u201d [Hmmm], loves travelling and wild places and could adapt to  anything life threw at him, \u201cexcept the loss of female company and  carbon\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of his final lines warns<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do not write to me if you are timid. I am too busy. Write to me if you are brave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a prat.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, I would say that this is an outrageous invasion of an  individual\u2019s privacy. However, in this case, I think it\u2019s simply the  most deliciously ironic thing that this egotistical, blatantly anti-US  and dangerous man has suffered this way. If, that is, this is not some  plant by the US\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: In a bitter if somewhat sweet bout of irony the online dating profile of Julian Assange, the man behind the explosion of Wikileaks, has been posted online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,63],"tags":[18278,1585,2213,18302,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}