{"id":1011,"date":"2013-02-26T19:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T03:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2013-02-26T19:37:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T03:37:05","slug":"unfortunately-i-told-you-so-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunately, I Told You So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back <a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/old\/2009\/05.html#18194030\">when the Establishment media were waxing triumphant over the defeat of the Tamil Tigers<\/a>? I was skeptical that it would result in any improvement of human rights in Sri Lanka, given the past record of the racist government there.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/26\/us-srilanka-rape-idUSBRE91P08G20130226\">it looks like I was right on the money<\/a>. In case that Reuters article disappears, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2013\/02\/26\/sri-lanka-rape-tamil-detainees\">report from Human Rights Watch<\/a> that it cites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back when the Establishment media were waxing triumphant over the defeat of the Tamil Tigers? I was skeptical that it would result in any improvement of human rights in Sri Lanka, given the past record of the racist government there. Well, it looks like I was right on the money. In case that Reuters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-ghouls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}