{"id":1812,"date":"2006-12-07T08:37:37","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T08:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2006-12-07T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T08:37:37","slug":"2006-12-7-stubborn-stability-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Stubborn stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Carnegie has a new paper on how Jordan, er, should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=18900&amp;prog=zgp&amp;proj=zdrl\">more democratic.<\/a> I have an idea: get rid of the Hashemites. Perhaps they should rule Saudi Arabia instead, it&#8217;s bound to be an improvement and anyway it&#8217;s the Hegazis&#8217; turn again. More seriously, it&#8217;s nice to see an establishment think tank like Carnegie take the US to task for enabling puppet Jordan&#8217;s authoritarian drift.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Carnegie has a new paper on how Jordan, er, should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=18900&amp;prog=zgp&amp;proj=zdrl\">more democratic.<\/a> I have an idea: get rid of the Hashemites. Perhaps they should rule Saudi Arabia instead, it&#8217;s bound to be an improvement and anyway it&#8217;s the Hegazis&#8217; turn again. More seriously, it&#8217;s nice to see an establishment think tank like Carnegie take the US to task for enabling puppet Jordan&#8217;s authoritarian drift.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[108,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}