{"id":2640,"date":"2003-01-26T22:07:26","date_gmt":"2003-01-26T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/26\/glass-houses-and-stones\/"},"modified":"2003-01-26T22:07:26","modified_gmt":"2003-01-26T16:37:26","slug":"glass-houses-and-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/glass-houses-and-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass houses and stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to recall that  there exists a country whose official position is that a treaty it signed with a neighbouring country in 1971, after thrashing said neighbouring country in a war, <i>overrides<\/i> an earlier UN resolution passed in 1948 on the same subject.<br \/>If you belong to this country and you support your country&#8217;s position on the subject, isn&#8217;t it a bit inconsistent of you to oppose the American invasion of Iraq on the ground that it is acting unilaterally, disregarding the United Nations?<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to recall that there exists a country whose official position is that a treaty it signed with a neighbouring country in 1971, after thrashing said neighbouring country in a war, overrides an earlier UN resolution passed in 1948 on the same subject.If you belong to this country and you support your country&#8217;s position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}