{"id":221493,"date":"2020-01-18T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/german-foreign-office-apologises-over-visa-seduction-joke-on-twitter-the-telegraph\/"},"modified":"2020-01-18T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T16:00:51","slug":"german-foreign-office-apologises-over-visa-seduction-joke-on-twitter-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/uncategorized\/german-foreign-office-apologises-over-visa-seduction-joke-on-twitter-the-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"German foreign office apologises over visa seduction joke on Twitter &#8211; The Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Germanys foreign office has apologised after an ill-judged joke on its Twitter account linking visas to seduction.<\/p>\n<p>Your visa got approved #SeduceSomeoneinFourWords, the diplomatic service tweeted in a move that seemed to confirm long-standing stereotypes about the clunky German sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>The social media account, which is in English, was attempting to ride the wave of a Twitter trend which emerged on Thursday and spread around the world.<\/p>\n<p>With the hashtag#SeduceSomeoneinFourWords, Twitter users were suggestingfour-word sentences that would spark romance.The fad attracted a mix of genuine and humorous responses.<\/p>\n<p>After six hours and 20 minutes and numerous complaints, the foreign office deleted the offending tweet and apologised.<\/p>\n<p>Being funny is apparently not always our strong suit, it said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>We know the visa process is complex, and visa decisions can deeply affect peoples'lives. Our colleagues take these decisions very seriously.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/01\/17\/german-foreign-office-apologises-visa-seduction-joke-twitter\/\" title=\"German foreign office apologises over visa seduction joke on Twitter - The Telegraph\">German foreign office apologises over visa seduction joke on Twitter - The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}