{"id":1889,"date":"2009-01-18T20:47:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T11:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2009-01-18T20:52:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T11:52:18","slug":"news-from-the-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/18\/news-from-the-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/episode_4_darth_vader_points_leia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/episode_4_darth_vader_points_leia-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Darth Vader and Leia\" title=\"Darth Vader and Leia\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1893\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/europe\/article\/2009\/01\/18\/kiev-et-moscou-s-entendent-pour-mettre-fin-a-leur-conflit-gazier_1143311_3214.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/h_4_ill_1143312_poutinetim-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Poutine and Timochenko\" title=\"Poutine and Timochenko\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/h_4_ill_1143312_poutinetim-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/h_4_ill_1143312_poutinetim.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presented above: female head of state confronting her nefarious neighbour&#8217;s imperialist views. Also presented above: Darth Vader and Princess Leia.<\/p>\n<p>It must be my medications, but when I saw this illustration of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/europe\/article\/2009\/01\/18\/kiev-et-moscou-s-entendent-pour-mettre-fin-a-leur-conflit-gazier_1143311_3214.html\">French article<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jan\/15\/russia-ukraine-gas-row\">current gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine<\/a>, I immediately thought of another political squabble, in a galaxy far, far away (photo credits on the right: AP\/Alexei Nikolsky).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented above: female head of state confronting her nefarious neighbour&#8217;s imperialist views. Also presented above: Darth Vader and Princess Leia. It must be my medications, but when I saw this illustration of a French article on the current gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine, I immediately thought of another political squabble, in a galaxy far, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ranting","category-too-much-caffeine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}