{"id":4056,"date":"2011-06-09T04:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2011-06-09T05:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:01:58","slug":"going-out-of-fashion-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4056","title":{"rendered":"Going out of fashion, fast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; humor, analytic indicators, fashion, dictators ]<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nIt seems likely from the first of these two images [<strong>Ben Ali, Saleh, Qaddafi, Mubarak<\/strong>, April] that manner of dress may be a valuable <strong>early indicator<\/strong> of how long a given dictator can hold onto power in the Middle East &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quo-vogue.jpg\" title=\"quo-vogue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quo-vogue.jpg\" alt=\"quo-vogue.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; but where does that leave the lovely <strong>Asma al-Assad<\/strong> [in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=8512\">Vogue<\/a> this February] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/vogue-daily\/article\/asma-al-assad-a-rose-in-the-desert\/\"><strong>today<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oops.jpg\" title=\"oops.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oops.jpg\" alt=\"oops.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; humor, analytic indicators, fashion, dictators ] . It seems likely from the first of these two images [Ben Ali, Saleh, Qaddafi, Mubarak, April] that manner of dress may be a valuable early indicator of how long a given dictator can hold onto power in the Middle East &#8212; &#8212; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,498,526,233,147,113,371,23,626,562,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytic","category-arab-world","category-charles-cameron","category-dictator","category-diplomatic-history","category-framing","category-humor","category-insight","category-patterns","category-perception","category-theory","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","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=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}