{"id":3701,"date":"2011-01-31T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2011-01-31T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T22:35:57","slug":"egypt-tear-gas-and-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3701","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: tear-gas and hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong>, cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/brainstormersontheweb.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/31\/tear_gas_and_hotels\/\">Brainstormers on the Web<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>Here are two data-points to drop into the mind-pool as we think about current events in Egypt, the Middle East in general, and the way the world turns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstormersontheweb.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/quotear-gas-and-hotels.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstormersontheweb.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/quotear-gas-and-hotels.gif\" width=\"602\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DoubleQuotes<\/strong> is my name for the format I&#8217;m using here, which I came up with a few years back on <a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.rheingold.com\">Brainstorms<\/a>.  The idea is simply to generate fresh insights by juxtaposing two thoughts \u2013 be they images, quotes, or even equations (I don&#8217;t have the technical chops for music or film clips yet) &#8212; in condensed, haiku-like form.<\/p>\n<p>Think of them as pebbles dropped in a pond, watch the ripples\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[ note to <strong>Zenpundit<\/strong> readers: I&#8217;ll say more about <strong>Brainstorms<\/strong> and <strong>Brainstormers on the Web<\/strong> in a week or two, once the &#8220;on the Web&#8221; blog gets under way ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron, cross-posted from Brainstormers on the Web ] Here are two data-points to drop into the mind-pool as we think about current events in Egypt, the Middle East in general, and the way the world turns. DoubleQuotes is my name for the format I&#8217;m using here, which I came up with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,498,526,215,102,113,178,23,43,270,562,436,472,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-arab-world","category-charles-cameron","category-culture","category-diplomacy","category-framing","category-geopolitics","category-insight","category-mideast","category-national-security","category-perception","category-psychology","category-public-diplomacy","category-symmetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}