{"id":55015,"date":"2017-05-05T01:22:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55015"},"modified":"2017-05-05T01:22:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T01:22:32","slug":"ideal-vs-real-at-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55015","title":{"rendered":"Ideal vs Real at State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tablet-DQ-600-ideal-vs-real-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tablet-DQ-600-ideal-vs-real-1.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tablet-DQ-600-ideal-vs-real-1-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Lowy Interpreter<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/trump-s-telephone-diplomacy-accelerates-southeast-asia-s-slide-illiberalism\">Trump\u2019s telephone diplomacy accelerates Southeast Asia\u2019s slide<\/a>\n<li><strong>AP<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/7afff2131d7b4b10b2c84b89c721b6c9\">Tillerson calls for balancing US security interests, values<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote in brackets at the head of this post, totally impractical as a guide to <strong>realpolitik<\/strong>, is from the <strong>Gospel according to St  Matthew<\/strong> 16.26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? ] . Sources: Lowy Interpreter, Trump\u2019s telephone diplomacy accelerates Southeast Asia\u2019s slide AP, Tillerson calls for balancing US security interests, values The quote in brackets at the head of this post, totally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,101,526,144,627,271,1040,1,1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-asia","category-charles-cameron","category-china","category-doublequotes","category-state-department","category-thailand","category-uncategorized","category-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015","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=55015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55021,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55015\/revisions\/55021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}