{"id":1151,"date":"2012-06-21T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2013-06-13T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T19:11:07","slug":"vanity-phone-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2012\/vanity-phone-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Took a while ’til my penny dropped: political vanity phone numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I looked at the MPP campaign poster and their “voters, phone us with your concerns” hotline earlier today, I noticed that the phone number was 1921 harking back to the revolution as a nice touch.<\/p>\n

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\nNot to be outdone in that regard, guess what the DP hotline’s number is? 1206. Ah yes, never a good Mongolian public appeal without some reference to Chinggis Khan hidden somewhere in the rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Both big parties are thus clearly harking back to glorious times in the nation’s imagined history and doing so by using a vanity phone number. Oddly, especially the level of Twitter activity among Mongolian politicians, very few of the campaign ads mention URLs, FB or twitter accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in a number? Big Mongolian parties use vanity phone numbers in the current election. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4769,4291,307907,307911,307841,642],"tags":[983091,983090],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democratic-party","category-elections","category-ikh-khural-2012","category-mongolian-peoples-party","category-party-politics","category-politics","tag-brandon-miliate","tag-julian-dierkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}