{"id":2204,"date":"2011-02-11T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2011-02-11T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:58:23","slug":"i-need-to-talk-a-little-about-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"I need to talk a little about Egypt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;how can you not be proud of the human beings who rose up and took control of their own destiny in Egypt? I have been watching this story unfold and have been humbled by the dignity of the protesters that said enough; enough of being treated like children who were not mature enough to set their own course and run their own country. I am a little disappointed by the lag in our government&#8217;s response to the events there, but I also understand that diplomacy is usually deliberate and works in small increments.<br \/>\nBut, things have changed&#8230;.events move much faster these days and we need to adjust our foreign policy to be able to keep up&#8230;and I am tired of hedging our bets when people are trying to become free&#8230;it is one thing that we need to support anywhere that the flower starts to burst through the ground&#8230;.let&#8217;s stop basing our actions on fear and and the belief that we are the only ones that know what freedom means&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>To the people of Egypt&#8230;Well Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;how can you not be proud of the human beings who rose up and took control of their own destiny in Egypt? I have been watching this story unfold and have been humbled by the dignity of the protesters that said enough; enough of being treated like children who were not mature enough to set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=2204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I need to talk a little about Egypt&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[351,171],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-egypt","tag-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}