{"id":675,"date":"2002-01-15T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=675"},"modified":"2002-01-15T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"changing-of-the-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/15\/20\/00\/changing-of-the-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Of The Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.org\/Search\/printable_fulltext.asp?i=20020101FAEssay6559.xml\">article<\/a> about the split in the Palestinian Authority between the older Arafat-aligned clique and the younger, go-for-broke types. With all the disagreements between Nationalists and Fundamentalist Islamists, it&#8217;s unsettlingly like old Irish politics.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.org\/Search\/printable_fulltext.asp?i=20020101FAEssay6559.xml\"><i>Arafat continues to give the Palestinian public a sense of stability, thus preventing large-scale breakdown of law and order. His presence deters the Islamists from posing an immediate threat to the shaky dominance of the nationalists; in his absence, all hell could break loose.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great article about the split in the Palestinian Authority between the older Arafat-aligned clique and the younger, go-for-broke types. With all the disagreements between Nationalists and Fundamentalist Islamists, it&#8217;s unsettlingly like&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}