{"id":7276,"date":"2013-09-07T14:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7276"},"modified":"2013-09-07T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:48:29","slug":"whats-wrong-with-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7276","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with diplomacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have been thinking about cleaning my bathroom but this looked easier so I&#8217;ll give this a try&#8230;one of the questions that I have with this whole Syria nonsense is &#8220;what&#8217;s wrong with diplomacy?&#8221; When did our entire foreign policy devolve into using military force for everything? What is wrong with talking to the world about it and trying to find a diplomatic solution? We used to do a good bit of &#8220;horse trading&#8221; to get what we want with the use of the military being the last resort&#8230;I think it would be a good idea to try that for a while and not be in such a hurry to bomb everything in sight&#8230;it&#8217;s like the old saying &#8221; when you are a hammer, everything you see is a nail&#8221;&#8230;..so, let&#8217;s talk for a while&#8230;Syria isn&#8217;t going anywhere&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have been thinking about cleaning my bathroom but this looked easier so I&#8217;ll give this a try&#8230;one of the questions that I have with this whole Syria nonsense is &#8220;what&#8217;s wrong with diplomacy?&#8221; When did our entire foreign policy devolve into using military force for everything? What is wrong with talking to the world about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s wrong with diplomacy?<\/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":[10],"tags":[945,942],"class_list":["post-7276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-diplomacy","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276","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=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7277,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions\/7277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}