{"id":63,"date":"2006-02-04T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=63"},"modified":"2006-02-04T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T21:15:11","slug":"middle-eastern-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/middle-eastern-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Eastern democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the more we see of democracy in the Middle East, the more we see rejection of the West.<\/p>\n<p>In Palestine we see the election of Israel&#8217;s implacable foe Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>In Iraq we see sectarianism and the election of Iranian clients. <\/p>\n<p>All in all, it doesn&#8217;t seem like democracy in the Middle East is going to turn out the way George Bush hopes.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the more we see of democracy in the Middle East, the more we see rejection of the West. In Palestine we see the election of Israel&#8217;s implacable foe Hamas. In Iraq we see sectarianism and the election of Iranian clients. All in all, it doesn&#8217;t seem like democracy in the Middle East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}