{"id":61,"date":"2008-07-16T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/this-gives-me-hope\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:05:49","slug":"this-gives-me-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/this-gives-me-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"This gives me hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is for those of you who follow international politics on any level.<\/p>\n<p>The US has had a policy of not speaking to Iran for many years. There&#8217;s even a debate in the current presidential election around &#8220;should we talk to our enemies?&#8221;.\u00a0 Well, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7508748.stm\">someone in the current US administration thinks so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of people who pooh-pooh talking, and I understand and agree with them. If you need to put up a building, standing around and talking about it won&#8217;t put the building up. If you have to make food for dinner, talking about it won&#8217;t make a nice beef stew. Talking is basically useless.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;re doing something that involves people. In that case, talking is hugely important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is for those of you who follow international politics on any level. The US has had a policy of not speaking to Iran for many years. There&#8217;s even a debate in the current presidential election around &#8220;should we talk to our enemies?&#8221;.\u00a0 Well, apparently someone in the current US administration thinks so. There&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/this-gives-me-hope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This gives me hope.&#8221;<\/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":[79,88],"tags":[82,171,170,169,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}