{"id":682,"date":"2004-03-25T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2004-03-25T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T15:40:00","slug":"682","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE GREAT AFRICAN COLLAPSE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaving on vacation shortly so my postings are going to be few for the interim. It&#8217;s a shame because there are any number of engaging posts going on in the blogosphere that I would love to tackle &#8211; reflections on arguments posted by Jeff at Caerdroia and Juan Cole alone could fill several hours of my time, time that unfortunately is scarce.<\/p>\n<p>However I&#8217;d like to take the time to point to this column by Arnaud de Brorchgrave on the state of Africa. De Brochgrave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GREAT AFRICAN COLLAPSE I&#8217;m leaving on vacation shortly so my postings are going to be few for the interim. It&#8217;s a shame because there are any number of engaging posts going on in the blogosphere that I would love to tackle &#8211; reflections on arguments posted by Jeff at Caerdroia and Juan Cole alone [&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-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}