{"id":1775,"date":"2006-05-23T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2006-05-23T01:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T01:34:00","slug":"1775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>AND THIS DUDE WAS THE REASSURING, &#8220;HUMAN&#8221; FACE!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nepal&#8217;s Maoist insurgents send out a mild-mannered, computer engineering, nerd type to charm the Western media into complacency ( not a very high bar to surmount, historically speaking, for Communist guerillas) and <a href=\"http:\/\/hotzone.yahoo.com\/b\/hotzone\/blogs4485\">the guy can&#8217;t get out two minutes of talking points before breaking into a glassy-eyed trance, reverting to type, and praising Stalinism and China&#8217;s Cultural Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Think what the scary Maoists are like in a rural village at night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curzon<\/strong> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/22\/the-actual-situation-in-nepal-is-as-such\/\">a firsthand report <\/a>at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/\">Coming Anarchy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AND THIS DUDE WAS THE REASSURING, &#8220;HUMAN&#8221; FACE! Nepal&#8217;s Maoist insurgents send out a mild-mannered, computer engineering, nerd type to charm the Western media into complacency ( not a very high bar to surmount, historically speaking, for Communist guerillas) and the guy can&#8217;t get out two minutes of talking points before breaking into a glassy-eyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}