{"id":1705,"date":"2008-02-19T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2008-02-19T11:47:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:47:49","slug":"two-dictators-gone-in-the-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/two-dictators-gone-in-the-same-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dictators gone in the same day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurrah, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/7251990.stm\">One<\/a> supported by America throughout his time in power, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7252109.stm\">one<\/a> persecuted by America for half a century.<\/p>\n<p>But there aren&#8217;t any double standards, oh no&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(And yes, I know Musharraf hasn&#8217;t gone, and it was only parliamentary elections &#8211; but it&#8217;s hopefully the beginning of the end at least. Assuming that losing him&#8217;s a good thing in such an unstable region, of course&#8230; Hmmm&#8230; Maybe I should rethink this one&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurrah, etc. One supported by America throughout his time in power, one persecuted by America for half a century. But there aren&#8217;t any double standards, oh no&#8230; (And yes, I know Musharraf hasn&#8217;t gone, and it was only parliamentary elections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/two-dictators-gone-in-the-same-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rest-of-the-world","tag-idiocy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}