{"id":100,"date":"2006-09-02T13:52:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T12:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2006-09-02T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T12:52:23","slug":"would-you-go-to-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Would you go to Uzbekistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, British career diplomat Craig Murray was delighted when he rceived his first ambassadorial appointment which happened to be to Uzbekistan at the beginning of the &#8216;War on Terror&#8217; and he threw himself into his new responsibilities.<br \/>\nSoon he found himself charged with 20 allegations of misconduct and seriously ill before his marraige broke up and his diplomatic career crashed to a halt. All this is told in his book &#8220;Murder In Samarkand&#8221; which I have just finished reading and reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#MIS\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI bought the book &#8211; together with a tourist guide &#8211; in preparation for a forthcoming holiday in Uzbekistan to see the magnificent art and architecture of the Silk Road cities of Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, British career diplomat Craig Murray was delighted when he rceived his first ambassadorial appointment which happened to be to Uzbekistan at the beginning of the &#8216;War on Terror&#8217; and he threw himself into his new responsibilities. Soon he found himself charged with 20 allegations of misconduct and seriously ill before his marraige broke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}