{"id":290,"date":"1999-02-05T09:12:57","date_gmt":"1999-02-05T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/1999\/02\/05\/the-hashemite-king\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T14:16:08","slug":"the-hashemite-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/1999\/02\/05\/the-hashemite-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hashemite King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why I&#8217;m sure the (impending) death of King Hussein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/inatl\/daily\/feb99\/hussein5.htm\">won&#8217;t be covered<\/a> as the tragedy it will be.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, he&#8217;s not a princess, blond, or beautiful.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty much cuts out all American interest in royalty, no?<\/p>\n<p>But do you see the incredibly sad story that it is?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A man who&#8217;s worked all his life towards a goal, only to see it slipping away just before his death?\u00c2\u00a0 Not knowing whether the country he&#8217;s worked to hold together for nearly 50 years will crumble the moment he dies?\u00c2\u00a0 Whether anyone can begin to take his place in slowly bringing stability to the region?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t quite explain why I&#8217;m thinking about this so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why I&#8217;m sure the (impending) death of King Hussein won&#8217;t be covered as the tragedy it will be. Okay, he&#8217;s not a princess, blond, or beautiful.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty much cuts out all American interest in royalty, no? But do you see the incredibly sad story that it is?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A man who&#8217;s worked all his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}