{"id":1267,"date":"2006-09-19T22:34:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T01:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2006-09-19T22:35:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T01:35:50","slug":"a-coup-for-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"A Coup for huh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>ren&#8217;t coups so <em>Eighties<\/em> like? I mean, I was surprised to read that there was a military <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/world\/national\/2006\/09\/19\/thailand-emergency.html\">coup in Thailand<\/a>. While I was aware that there was some political unrest (religious conflicts, monarchy problems) in that country, I thought the country&#8217;s democracy was pretty stable.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hey, there are also trubbles in Hungary, where protesters clashed with police after the prime-minister admitted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/world\/national\/2006\/09\/19\/hungary-politics.html\">he lied about the state of the country<\/a>. Compare <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/mass-riots-in-hungary-after-socialist.html\">Gateway pundit<\/a> (not in Hungary) vs. <a href=\"http:\/\/the-internationalist.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/rioting.html\">The Internationalist<\/a> (in Hungary: <a href=\"http:\/\/the-internationalist.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/lautomne-budapest.html\">more<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/the-internationalist.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/broadcasts.html\">more more<\/a>). Oh and: Politicians, they lie?\n<\/p>\n<p>The last surprise (and you! won&#8217;t! read! that! at! Gateway! Pundit!) I have to mention is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/national\/story.html?id=907daad3-55ec-4670-8f1d-4e53d6578d65&#038;k=46945\">evil Liberals won the provincial election in New Brunswick<\/a>, defeating the 7 year old Conservative government. Thanks to a redistribution of ridings, according to political experts. I wonder which party was responsible for that redistribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aren&#8217;t coups so Eighties like? I mean, I was surprised to read that there was a military coup in Thailand. While I was aware that there was some political unrest (religious conflicts, monarchy problems) in that country, I thought the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1267\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}