{"id":4363,"date":"2009-01-15T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:44:00","slug":"thanks-for-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/thanks-for-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks For Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

India Uncut finished second in the Best Asian Blog category<\/a> in the 2008 Weblog Awards. We lost by just under 300 votes, and got more than 3000. I’m very touched that so many votes were cast on this blog’s behalf, so thank you<\/b> for that. While I shall continue to blog regularly, so as to be in your good books, I am relieved that I do not have to honour any of my pre-poll promises now. So no, I will not post a video of my sensuous belly dance anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Also, my congratulations to the winner Ashin Mettacara<\/a>, a Buddhist monk from Burma who has been speaking out for free speech for a while. On his blog, he says<\/a>, “Today we show the world our unity, and we get the power to restore democracy and human rights in Burma.” I wish him all the best in this cause. My getting the award would not have benefited India in any way—though you would have gotten that belly dance—so it’s best that Ashin won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India Uncut finished second in the Best Asian Blog category<\/a> in the 2008 Weblog Awards. We lost by just under 300 votes, and got more than 3000. I’m very touched that so many votes were cast on this blog’s behalf, so thank you<\/b> for that. While I shall continue to blog regularly, so as to be in your good books, I am relieved that I do not have to honour any of my pre-poll promises now. So no, I will not post a video of my sensuous belly dance anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Also, my congratulations to the winner Ashin Mettacara<\/a>, a Buddhist monk from Burma who has been speaking out for free speech for a while. On his blog, he says<\/a>, “Today we show the world our unity, and we get the power to restore democracy and human rights in Burma.” I wish him all the best in this cause. My getting the award would not have benefited India in any way—though you would have gotten that belly dance—so it’s best that Ashin won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThanks For Voting - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/thanks-for-voting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thanks For Voting - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"India Uncut finished second in the Best Asian Blog category in the 2008 Weblog Awards. We lost by just under 300 votes, and got more than 3000. 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