{"id":426527,"date":"2010-03-14T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/georgian-tv-russian-hoax-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-14T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T13:12:00","slug":"nation-of-georgia-goes-nuts-after-tv-network-shows-hoax-about-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/426527","title":{"rendered":"Nation Of Georgia Goes Nuts After TV Network Shows Hoax About Russian Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b9ce0117f8b9a0849b00600-282-211\/mikheil-saakashvilli.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"mikheil saakashvilli\" width=\"282\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is nuts.<\/p>\n<p>A news network in the nation of Georgia doing a special about what a &#8220;worst case scenario&#8221; would look like, caused mass panic by running a report on a Russian invasion, which claimed that the President had been captured.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this story particularly interesting is the suspicion that the Georgian government lead by President Mikheil Saakashvili was behind the production of the 30-minute segment in order to foment anger at Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Saakashvilli had once been the toast of Western leaders, who saw him as a reformist, but he seems to devolving into a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eWkCTMBACo0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eWkCTMBACo0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/georgian-tv-russian-hoax-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/B7dboHhQ7pQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is nuts. A news network in the nation of Georgia doing a special about what a &#8220;worst case scenario&#8221; would look like, caused mass panic by running a report on a Russian invasion, which claimed that the President had been captured. What makes this story particularly interesting is the suspicion that the Georgian government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}