{"id":306,"date":"2007-06-05T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-06-05T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T20:10:35","slug":"countries-opening-embassies-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Countries Opening Embassies in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maldives opened Second Life&#8217;s first <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.secondlifeinsider.com\/2007\/05\/23\/the-maldives-virtual-embassy\/\">virtual embassy<\/A> on May 23rd, beating the upcoming <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.secondlifeinsider.com\/2007\/05\/22\/swedish-embassy-to-open-on-may-30th\/\">Swedish embassy<\/A> by eight days.  The Philippines and Macedonia are also looking into establishing diplomatic missions, as Second Life&#8217;s role as a means of low-cost communication becomes increasingly evident.<P>I&#8217;ve blogged about Second Life a couple of times before; I think I like it because it&#8217;s so reminiscent of the virtual universe envisioned in <I>Snow Crash<\/I>.  It&#8217;s rapidly becoming a true shadow community, which is neat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maldives opened Second Life&#8217;s first virtual embassy on May 23rd, beating the upcoming Swedish embassy by eight days. The Philippines and Macedonia are also looking into establishing diplomatic missions, as Second Life&#8217;s role as a means of low-cost communication becomes increasingly evident.I&#8217;ve blogged about Second Life a couple of times before; I think I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}