{"id":1566,"date":"2008-02-22T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2008-02-22T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:37:25","slug":"estonian-embassy-opens-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/estonian-embassy-opens-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian Embassy Opens in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/web-static.vm.ee\/static\/failid\/487\/Estonia_Embassy_ext1.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/gwynethllewelyn.net\/2007\/12\/28\/estonian-embassy-opens-in-second-life\/\">Estonia has opened up an embassy<\/a> in Second Life:<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps unlike other \u201cembassies\u201d in Second Life, Estonia\u2019s is interesting because of its focus: they\u2019re not here to show off the natural beauty of their lovely country and attract tourists. Instead they have settled to invite the visitors to experience a very high-tech country which is at the forefront of the computer and Internet revolution. It\u2019s very likely that they\u2019re planning to attract similarly-minded individuals, organisations, and governments from other countries to learn with Estonia how to expand and develop the roots of e-government and an information society inside a democratic country \u2014 Estonia having been ranked by \u201cReporters Without Borders\u201d as having the fourth highest index of press freedom (the US ranks at #44) and by the State of World Liberty Index as the country with the highest level of individual and economic freedom and limited government (the US ranks at #8).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vm.ee\/eng\/kat_138\/9100.html\"><br \/>\nEstonian Second Life Embassy &#8211; FAQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/el-oso.net\/\">David Sasaki<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, Estonia has opened up an embassy in Second Life: Perhaps unlike other \u201cembassies\u201d in Second Life, Estonia\u2019s is interesting because of its focus: they\u2019re not here to show off the natural beauty of their lovely country and attract tourists. Instead they have settled to invite the visitors to experience a very high-tech country which is at the forefront of the computer and Internet revolution. It\u2019s very likely that they\u2019re planning to attract similarly-minded individuals, organisations, and governments from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-estonia","category-tech-in-far-off-lands","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-pg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}