{"id":9140,"date":"2017-07-02T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/?p=9140"},"modified":"2017-07-02T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:35:32","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/index\/","title":{"rendered":"index"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/singlish\/\">Singlish<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Amos Yee<\/li>\n<li>Apathy \u2013 This is meant to be a post about how\u00a0and why Singaporeans tend to be politically apathetic. Particularly, I want to examine why people consistently make the mistake of assuming that superficial shows of support (Facebook Likes, rally attendance, etc) will translate into some sort of real impact and change, when it frequently doesn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Amnesia<\/li>\n<li>Music<\/li>\n<li>Art<\/li>\n<li>Sex<\/li>\n<li>Drugs<\/li>\n<li>Food<\/li>\n<li>People \u2013 an index post for talking about specific individuals who I find interesting or noteworthy in some way\n<ul>\n<li>Alfian<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/lky\/\">LKY<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Roy<\/li>\n<li>KJ<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/csj\/\">CSJ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/tropes\/\">Tropes<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an index post for common Singaporean tropes and themes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/caterpillars\/\">Caterpillars<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a post about Singapore&#8217;s unfortunate habit of<\/li>\n<li>Passion \u2013 I want to explore Singaporean&#8217;s assumptions about what passion is. I think I was thinking about Singapore Dreaming when I thought of this, but also lots of other different things.<\/li>\n<li>Sexism \u2013\u00a0For all its seeming modernity, Singapore\u00a0can still be a startlingly sexist place<\/li>\n<li>Racism \u2013 ditto<\/li>\n<li>Media \u2013 our media needs to do a lot better if we are to continue to thrive as a nation<\/li>\n<li>Fails \u2013 an index post about specific fuckups that I think ought to be kept in our collective memory<\/li>\n<li>Crime\n<ul>\n<li>Police \u2013 Singapore is sometimes described as a police state. Unfortunately, our police isn&#8217;t perfect. It&#8217;s important to acknowledge this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ministerial Pay<\/li>\n<li>Law<\/li>\n<li>NS \u2013 an index post for\u00a0one of Singapore&#8217;s\u00a0hot-button issues<\/li>\n<li>Oxley \u2013 what I think<\/li>\n<li>Death Penalty<\/li>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Existential Threats<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singlish Amos Yee Apathy \u2013 This is meant to be a post about how\u00a0and why Singaporeans tend to be politically apathetic. Particularly, I want to examine why people consistently make the mistake of assuming that superficial shows of support (Facebook Likes, rally attendance, etc) will translate into some sort of real impact and change, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6cErj-index","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9171,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140\/revisions\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}