{"id":5559,"date":"2015-02-11T06:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2015-02-11T06:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T11:59:20","slug":"julian-assange-has-spent-959-days-or-1-3-million-minutes-in-ecuador-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5559","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange has Spent 959 Days, or 1.3 Million Minutes, in Ecuador Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/1245730-just-a-reminder-julian-assange-still-living-in-ecuador-embassy-in-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Assange has Spent 959 Days, or 1.3 Million Minutes, in Ecuador Embassy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, is still holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London.<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn\u2019t know, it\u2019s been two and a half years\u2013959 days or about 1,380,960 minutes\u2013since he sought refuge at the embassy. He was facing extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it\u2019s cost the U.K. government about $15 million to maintain a guard at the embassy, located in central London, reported LBC radio on Tuesday. On average, it costs more than $15,000 per day to guard the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Hogan-Howe, the chief of London\u2019s Metropolitan Police, admitted the policing is \u201csucking resources\u201d from the department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange has Spent 959 Days, or 1.3 Million Minutes, in Ecuador Embassy Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, is still holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. In case you didn\u2019t know, it\u2019s been two and a half years\u2013959 days or about 1,380,960 minutes\u2013since he sought refuge at the embassy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3438,2001,820,880],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-educador-embassy","tag-julian-assange","tag-uk","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}