{"id":291,"date":"2020-05-24T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2020-05-24T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:00:30","slug":"middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t see why either the US or Australia&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">should wander around the ruins of the Middle East&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">where military might and a fear-ridden, cold war&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">mentality has been exercised for no truthful&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or declared purpose for so many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would be better advised to look to our nearest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">neighbour, NZ for ways to realign our moral compass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and seek to heal some of the deep, dark holes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in our peculiar history and set our own course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We desperately need a bold and honest plan;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">one that\u2019s owing to our first peoples and&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">deals with the evident threats to our planet today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t see why either the US or Australia&nbsp; should wander around the ruins of the Middle East&nbsp; where military might and a fear-ridden, cold war&nbsp; mentality has been exercised for no truthful&nbsp; or declared purpose for so many years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/?p=291\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}