{"id":1650,"date":"2007-09-25T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/burma-myanmar\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T18:32:11","slug":"burma-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/burma-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Burma \/ Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t noticed, where have you been? <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/in_depth\/asia_pacific\/2007\/burma\/default.stm\">A mass movement in favour of democracy<\/a> in a country ruled by a military junta for the best part of half a century is on the brink. Whether it will be crushed with guns and batons or march on to victory, it&#8217;s far too early to say.<\/p>\n<p>None of us can have a real effect, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/stand_with_burma\/tf.php\">signing this petition<\/a> will, at least, register your support for those risking their lives for what they believe &#8211; something I doubt many people reading this will ever have had to do.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/burma-protest.html\">Rachel<\/a>, who has more details, and <a href=\"http:\/\/allpeopleunite.blogspot.com\/\">Abdul-Rahim<\/a> for the reminder in what&#8217;s been a long and busy day&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t noticed, where have you been? A mass movement in favour of democracy in a country ruled by a military junta for the best part of half a century is on the brink. Whether it will be crushed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/burma-myanmar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rest-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}