{"id":247,"date":"2004-05-31T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=247"},"modified":"2004-05-31T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T17:42:26","slug":"reasons-for-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the traditional media can be right twice a day.  ABC news <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/World\/Politics\/iraq_analysis_040530.html\">has an article<\/a> about the decline of the main threats to a peaceful and democratic Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the traditional media can be right twice a day. ABC news has an article about the decline of the main threats to a peaceful and democratic Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}