{"id":816,"date":"2012-08-15T23:13:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T06:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=816"},"modified":"2012-08-15T23:13:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T06:13:19","slug":"wow-just-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Wow. Just wow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/sns-rt-us-wikileaks-assange-ecuadorbre87e16n-20120815,0,4759887.story\">threatening to mimic what Iran did in 1979 and storm an embassy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the governments of the West didn&#8217;t have double standards, then they&#8217;d have absolutely no standards at all.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;m being unfair in my comparison here\u2026 unfair to Iran, that is. The decision to storm the US Embassy was made by a non-governmental group of young radicals in Iran, and then subsequently supported by their new Islamic government. If the Ecuadorian embassy is stormed by the British, it will be done directly by the British government, with its support and advocacy, from Day One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is threatening to mimic what Iran did in 1979 and storm an embassy? If the governments of the West didn&#8217;t have double standards, then they&#8217;d have absolutely no standards at all. Actually, I&#8217;m being unfair in my comparison here\u2026 unfair to Iran, that is. The decision to storm the US Embassy was made by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}