{"id":1532,"date":"2008-06-09T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2008-06-09T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T05:55:47","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1532","title":{"rendered":"Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recommend John Pilger&#8217;s documentary <em>The War on Democracy<\/em>. It&#8217;s about the adventures of the US in Latin America. The basic idea is that the US has done whatever it feels it needs to do to further its &#8216;national interests&#8217;, including supporting coups of democratically-elected leaders. Pilger is a little simplistic, too easily concluding that the enemy of my enemy is my friend (Chavez, Castro), but he&#8217;s still mostly spot on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityhop.co.nz\/\">Aucklanders can hire cars for $13.50\/hr incl petrol<\/a> <small>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/wellingtonista.com\/baby-you-can-share-my-car\">wellingtonista<\/a>]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recommend John Pilger&#8217;s documentary The War on Democracy. It&#8217;s about the adventures of the US in Latin America. The basic idea is that the US has done whatever it feels it needs to do to further its &#8216;national interests&#8217;, including supporting coups of democratically-elected leaders. Pilger is a little simplistic, too easily concluding that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiovideo","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}