{"id":2730,"date":"2008-05-30T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2008-05-30T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:21:28","slug":"abu-muqawama-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"Abu Muqawama &#8220;Retires&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold move,<strong> &#8220;Abu Muqawama&#8221;<\/strong> a.k.a <strong>Andrew Exum<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abumuqawama.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/thank-you-and-goodbye.html\">has announced his departure from blogging <\/a>in order to devote more time to his academic career and consulting. The good news is that\u00a0<strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abumuqawama.blogspot.com\/\">Abu Muqawama<\/a>,<\/em><\/strong> the excellent group COIN blog, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abumuqawama.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/show-must-go-on.html\">will continue on as before <\/a>under the stewardship of <strong>Erin &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Simpson<\/strong>, <strong>Kip<\/strong>, <strong>Londonstani<\/strong>, <strong>Dr.iRack<\/strong> and others yet to be named.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes to Mr. Exum in his academic career. <strong><em>Abu Muqawama<\/em><\/strong>, which he created, has been a daily &#8220;must-read&#8221; for me for\u00a0some time, a smart, fast-paced, very successful\u00a0blog that manages to regularly demonstrate both analytical depth and irreverent humor about serious foreign policy and defense\u00a0problems. I look forward to\u00a0seeing the\u00a0evolution of\u00a0<strong><em>Abu Muqawama 2.0 <\/em><\/strong>with new personalities and areas of expertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold move, &#8220;Abu Muqawama&#8221; a.k.a Andrew Exum has announced his departure from blogging in order to devote more time to his academic career and consulting. The good news is that\u00a0Abu Muqawama, the excellent group COIN blog, will continue on as before under the stewardship of Erin &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Simpson, Kip, Londonstani, Dr.iRack and others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,129,321,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-blogging","category-blogosphere","category-blogroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","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=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}