{"id":602,"date":"2008-07-24T11:52:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2008-07-24T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:52:45","slug":"omar-al-bashir-kills-a-dove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Omar al-Bashir kills a dove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s <em>Times<\/em>, describing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/24\/world\/africa\/24sudan.html?pagewanted=print\">&#8220;charm offensive&#8221; by Omar Hassan al-Bashir<\/a> who is expected to be indicted soon on charges of genocide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The minute he stepped off the plane here, a white dove was thrust into his hands.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bashir threw the bird toward the sky. It flapped its wings a few times, but did not really fly.<\/p>\n<p>No bother. Mr. Bashir beamed and strutted down the runway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Am I to take it from this glancing reference that the dove that was thrown towards the sky then plummeted back to the earth, perhaps to it&#8217;s death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Times, describing the &#8220;charm offensive&#8221; by Omar Hassan al-Bashir who is expected to be indicted soon on charges of genocide: The minute he stepped off the plane here, a white dove was thrust into his hands. Mr. Bashir threw the bird toward the sky. It flapped its wings a few times, but did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,527,525],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","tag-darfur","tag-omar-hassan-al-bashir","tag-sudan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-9I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}