{"id":909,"date":"2009-03-19T20:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T20:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2009-03-19T20:43:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T20:43:20","slug":"battlestar-galactica-hosted-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/19\/battlestar-galactica-hosted-at-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlestar Galactica Hosted At The UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is so cool!\u00a0 Posted on Slashdot today&#8230; <a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/out\/idle.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/03\/19\/1851252']);\" title=\"Battlestar Galactica Hosted At The UN\"  href=\"http:\/\/idle.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/03\/19\/1851252\" target=\"_blank\">Full Link Here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TheDopp writes <em>&#8220;The United Nations <a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/out\/popwatch.ew.com\/popwatch\/2009\/03\/galactica-un.html']);\"  href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/popwatch\/2009\/03\/galactica-un.html\">hosted the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica<\/a> Tuesday evening in New York. Clips of the show were shown as discussion points during the event, touching on the morality of Suicide Bombers in war, Abortion and the use of torture on enemies of the state. <a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/out\/io9.com\/5173862\/the-night-battlestar-galactica-took-over-the-un']);\"  href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5173862\/the-night-battlestar-galactica-took-over-the-un\">At one point during the event<\/a> an attendee mentions &#8216;the &#8220;Old Man&#8221; launched into a passionate speech about casting off the idea of race as a cultural determinant, and said we were one race, the human race. His voice echoed throughout the chamber growing louder until \u2014 I kid you not \u2014 he was yelling, &#8220;So Say We All,&#8221; and the crowd answered right back. Hell, even I yelled it, I was in the fraking United Nations with Adama, the gods themselves could not have stopped this moment.&#8217; The <a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/out\/webcast.un.org\/ramgen\/ondemand\/specialevents\/2009\/se090317pm.rm']);\"  href=\"http:\/\/webcast.un.org\/ramgen\/ondemand\/specialevents\/2009\/se090317pm.rm\">full video of the event is located on the UN website<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"ddac3911c67bc0e3db301fc01952e3bc\" data-index=\"100\" style=\"\">\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so cool!\u00a0 Posted on Slashdot today&#8230; Full Link Here TheDopp writes &#8220;The United Nations hosted the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica Tuesday evening in New York. Clips of the show were shown as discussion points during the &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/19\/battlestar-galactica-hosted-at-the-un\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}