{"id":1214,"date":"2010-07-19T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2010-07-19T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:47:22","slug":"aux-armes-citoyens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Aux armes, citoyens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Stross <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2010\/07\/five-reasons-to-envy-the-frenc.html\">waxes sycophantic<\/a> about France.  One of his reasons is that France refused to go to war with Iraq.  Oh so principled.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the French were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalwitness.org\/media_library_detail.php\/881\/en\/international_timber_company_dlh_accused_of_fundin\">Getting cheap conflict hardwood from civil-war-ravaged Liberia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2004\/11\/9\/french_forces_destroy_ivory_coast_airforce\">Bombing the crap out of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.newsmax.com\/archives\/articles\/2004\/11\/9\/140522.shtml\">Slaughtering peaceful protesters, also in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Stross waxes sycophantic about France. One of his reasons is that France refused to go to war with Iraq. Oh so principled. Meanwhile, the French were: Getting cheap conflict hardwood from civil-war-ravaged Liberia. Bombing the crap out of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire. Slaughtering peaceful protesters, also in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}